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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 5
The original audience for these lectures on “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” was a group of 70…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 4
Pre-oedipal triangles (starring: φ), properly oedipal squares (starring: -φ), a bit of set theory (don’t shoot the messenger, pls), and the first few…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 3
Need, demand, and desire — now we’re getting to it. Be on the lookout for humans as worms, turds as gifts, the meaning of unpierced ears, and insati…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 2
I was planning to rollout this seven-part audio series on “The Subversion of the Subject” over the next few weeks, but I’m hearing from folks that th…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 1
If you could recommend only one essay in Écrits, which would it be? I’d probably pick “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in …
3 years, 9 months ago