JACQUES LACAN / ŽIŽEKIAN MASTERCLASS (9)

This Masterclass focuses on the way Žižek attempts to engage the theories of Jacques Lacan and psychoanalysis more generally in order to bridge his work with German Idealism and the Hegelian tradition. Lacan's theory is here seen as a huge challenge for Idealism and Hegelianism since Lacan was an infamous anti-philosopher who challenged the foundational assumptions of philosophical theories of the self. In this challenge Lacan still attempted to engage productively with foundational philosophers but re-reading them through the discovery of the unconscious. This led to a new understanding of concepts like absolute knowing, and allowed him to approach paradoxes, contradictions, and knots of desire. In the end Lacan's edifice offers us a way to approach unconscious truth and struggle with the core of our being in language.

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[stevenkeeling]

Thank you for all of this content, from a mid 30 year old industrial construction worker. University is out of the picture at this point and trying to find a way to navigate through all these texts and philosophies can be difficult. I appreciate all the help so much, you will have a new Patreon subscriber within the week. Once again, thanks.

[AB-okhu]

I believe Freud would deeply disagree with Lacan's statement of the unconscious structured as language (the same way he disagreed with Jung's archetypes), but not so much with Zizek's idea of "Alien inhuman core". Most of Freudian analysis it is based on the way the Western subject is so ignorant to his own energy that he doesn't even know where it is or how to manipulate it, but he does at least in a moderated way (thru the secondary process).


The first thing that you learn from yoga is that you have a body and most of our unconscious problems become from not knowing that and once you learn how to center your consciousness in your body, you learn more about your (that would be an immediate access to the Real thru the Reality Principle).


The thing is that Freud and Lacan never achieved a full understanding of the Reality Principle and its potential to mediate in the flow of energy (or Principle of Constancy). There's the cure of psychoanalysis.


It would be great if you add an humanist perspective of psychoanalysis besides anti-humanism.


I don't think it is possible to achieve a deep understanding of human condition by going against the teleology of human ontology, it is sad that we became so cynical about our own nature to the point that everything outside anti-humanism seems naive to academics. They seem to be more interested in analyzing humans as ants with more sophisticated language.