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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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 months ago
Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On the Subject Who is Finally in Question," Part 1
For years, my go-to essay in Écrits was “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis.” I studied it, taught it, and even structu…
3 years, 4 months ago
Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Beyond the 'Reality Principle'"
Here’s the thing about often overlooked essays in Écrits — or, at least, here’s what I learned last fall, while recording these mini-lectures: Even L…
3 years, 4 months ago
Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On My Antecedents"
Our recent podcast on “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire” began with a question: If you could recommend only one essay in Écrit…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 7
What was there before the Symbolic? Certainly not the Real. And what was life like before castration? Certainly not jouissance. So begins Part 7 in t…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 6
If you’ve ever wondered how egos, superegos, ideal egos, and ego ideals hang together, and how others big and small are involved, Part 6 of this lect…
3 years, 4 months ago