The Imaginary Dissolution | Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan

Thought in Motion is a series dedicated to the Seminars of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Today we cover Seminar III, lecture 7.

This video asks the following questions:
1) How are the drives and the ego in conflict?
2) Why is the name of the father important for regulating the imaginary?
3) How does Schreber undergo an imaginary dissolution?

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[OdoItal]

Thank you again for doing these. Always look forward to them 👍

[jonathonray]

This helped to clarify Lacan concepts of imaginary and symbolic and big other for me more than anything else - coming from an anglo psychoanalytic perspective. The oedipal subject as opposed to the pre-oedipal is a subject brought into the world of narration where we can actually think about what is going on - where there is a higher perspective (big other). In the dyadic situation alone narration is limited and ultimately egocentric and so completely co-opted by the imaginary.

[alopezg]

Hello. Great video as always. I am confused by something. If the unconscious is the discourse of the (symbolic) Other, which has to do with language and law, why is it that socially unacceptable desires- like the incestuous oedipal wish- reside/ get pushed back 'there'. DO you see what I mean?