Open Seminar: "The Clinical Lacan" by Dr. Jochem Willemsen, University of Essex

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In this Open Seminar, hosted by the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, Dr. Jochem Willemsen, from the University of Essex, speaks about the L-schema in which the analytic situation is set out in terms of the Imaginary and the Symbolic.
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[@peace_cat76]

So, by the middle of the lecture, if I am understanding it well, the ego is something recognized in the "other" during the "imaginary"/mirror stage of an infant around 6 months old (normally), leaving behind the nebulous Real of the subject, who becomes further externalized as he or she comes to grapple with the unconscious realm, as it too seems in need of integration, having been pinpointed out of reach?

[@adamszymanski5573]

Excellent lecture but subpar camerawork. The camera is on an unflattering low angle and the diagram is often out of view.

[@MrFree2nest]

How close is Lacan's concept of the I as illusion to Buddhist psychology.

[@howardhuang6018]

Pretty close, although arguably Psychoanalysis is about traveling into the Real by way of the Imaginary, through a re-discovery of the Oedipal solution. Buddhism, on the other hand--especially those of the Zen tradition--emphasizes non-understanding much more, as well as a direct plunging into the Real. The book "Signifier pointing at the moon" by Raul Moncayo is highly relevant and very much recommended.

[@thenowchurch6419]

@@howardhuang6018 The books and talks of Jiddu Krishnamurti perhaps reconcile the Lacanian view and the Buddhist. He claims that the issues of the past are always with us in the present issues and need not be addressed from the childhood perspective.