Podcast Episodes

Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 1

With the winter holidays fast approaching, and perhaps some angsty family dynamics as well, it seems like a particularly good time to launch our new …

3 years, 6 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Science and Truth"

This episode on “Science and Truth” brings us to the end of Écrits. And in bringing us to the end of Écrits, it also offers a convenient stopping po…

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956"

This episode begins with Lacan’s account of “the cut brought about by the heteronomy of the symbolic” and ends by explaining his frequent claim that …

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Response to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's 'Verneinung'"

Good Lacanians, like good Hegelians, often enjoy counting.

Odd-numbered counts tend to be the most productive. Hence, today’s triangulated podcast …

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Introduction to Jean Hyppolite's Commentary on Freud's 'Verneinung'"

Reading Écrits is like riding a bike — not because you never forget how (on the contrary!) but because different essays in the volume often require d…

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On a Purpose"

Here’s a little episode on a little essay in Écrits with lots of iconic themes strung throughout: Truth, language, and the unconscious, triangulated …

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the Standard Treatment," Part 3

Our final episode on this often overlooked essay in Écrits begins by returning to the topic of speech. Because speech is always addressed, its meani…

3 years, 7 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the Standard Treatment," Part 2

“Variations on the Standard Treatment” is about life and death — but not as we usually conceive of these basic human experiences.

Between early live…

3 years, 8 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the Standard Treatment," Part 1

“Variations on the Standard Treatment” in 10 moves — that’s our wager in this week’s installment of Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits.

I’m not sure h…

3 years, 8 months ago

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On the Subject Who is Finally in Question," Part 2

The keyword in the title of this often overlooked essay in Écrits is “subject.” No surprise there! But notice how Lacan presents the subject at ess…

3 years, 8 months ago