The Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real: Register Theory of Lacan (Lacan and Zizek)

This video dives into the Register Theory of Lacan. Following examples given by Zizek and Lacan himself, the goal is to understand the individual registers and their impact on our everyday life.

References:
How to read Lacan, Zizek
Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud, Philippe Julien
On Feminine Sexuality The Limits of Love and Knowledge, Lacan
Ecrits, Lacan

[addammadd]

I’m watching this at 3:17am having awakened to a bed saturated with my sweat. Nightly I revisit my experiences as an occupying soldier in Iraq. I study Lacan and Baudrillard and Zizek and so on and so on so as to learn a vocabulary I can use to express this self-horror. This nocturnally reified intellectual dungeon. I’m seeking liberation through the sublation of my historical self and actions thereof.

This aufebung opens the door but my morality will never quite allow me to walk through it. One who commits such crimes ought to give up the hope of decency. Or maybe, this horror is the only modicum of decency left to someone like me. Or maybe it’s just the reflexive masochism of a Catholic upbringing.

Anyhow this video was stimulating and beautifully presented. You should be proud of this effort.

[dr.phil.pepper]

This is one of the best explanations of Lacan I've ever seen.

[paranoidandroid]

First video that I watch about Lacan's theories that doesn't consist of a monotone human talking to the camera, but instead made me put myself nearer Lacan's point of view and understanding his way of saying what he said, making my learning of all of this inmensely deeper. Thank you so much for your work

[sanjinv]

Wow, this was so clear and powerful, "psychophilosphy" at it's best! Also, such a beautiful amalgam of brilliance of the Freud - Lacan - Žižek genius line of thought...

[christiantodorov]

Amazing video and quality of production. I was shocked when I saw the subscriber and view count. I'll definitely be following the channel.

[Phone_device]

There are many videos i have watched but yours is the best, and a comprehensible one. I wish i could grab a tea and sit with you for hours.

[Schlynn]

I just finished How to Read Lacan and this was a perfect next step to a deeper understanding to the three registers. Thank you.

[jiszlai]

very clear and concise, I enjoyed your short and good structuring

[darnna]

thank you!!! finally someone could explain to me what is the imaginary and the symbolic! it was easy to understand and makes so much sense, thanks for this!

[andresmilonas]

Wonderful productions. Thanks so much for doing this videos with very valious information, and so clearly explained with great examples and ilustrations. Greetings from Mexico.

[e]

This makes more sense to me than the signifier/signified video. Very interesting ideas, and hard to get your head around them

[VioletDeliriums]

Excellent use of Zizek's book to help create this video. I just read it, and I like how you go back to Zizek's footnotes and then show the passage in Lacan's writings. I actually read the Zizek book so that I would better understand how he understands (and thus uses) Lacan, rather than to understand Lacan himself. But I do think that there is some use in using Zizek's book to understand Lacan. That said, Halberstam makes an interesting critique of Zizek: Zizexk claims to use Lacan to explain popular culture, but often uses popular culture to explain Lacan. Certainly, that critique makes sense when you read "How to Read Lacan."

[hadderceballos]

Excellent video; this was a marvelous job!

[barnettcohen]

Super helpful in reading NO FUTURE by Edelman

[toxendon]

Actual good audio. A rare thing on these kinds of videos.

[laura-laurent]

brilliant video, I would love to hear you explain kristeva's abject

[visavou]

a big thank you from india .. needed this one

[lukeskirenko]

How do you connect the different notions of the real here at 11:28, of the real as the 'unknowable', and then at 14:59 of the real as that which can can be seen and to which we can awaken? By the end of the video it appears that all that's really being said is that we can learn more about what motivates and compels us, over time. Which is of course not a profound incite, and appears to undermine the idea that there is a register which is 'unknowable'. I suppose it makes sense to say that there are always 'unconscious' reasons for our behaviour, but that's simply to say that developing an idea of oneself happens post hoc in many respects. But that's merely a common sense notion which I'm sure has always existed. On top of that, the rules of culture aren't so much prohibitive as facilitative, and they don't have to be expressed as a divine order, but rather just a system which is necessary in order to be facilitative. That they tend to be expressed as 'law' is a historically contingent thing, and it strikes me that we're moving away from a simple notion of 'authority'.

[golamnur]

It is one of the few quality videos on YouTube.

[dangdang]

Thank you? so much?? it was soooo good. clear and clean