A Tour of Lacan's Graph of Desire

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Published 2020-04-20
A tour of Jacques Lacan's famous 'Graph of Desire', as elaborated in 'The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire' in his Écrits. We check in at each of its points, explain what all the algebra means, and go through the concepts behind it. Plenty of real-life examples to help explain.

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All Comments (21)
  • @lacanopedia2558
    Hello, this is LacanoPedia, a Greek-speaking channel for Lacan's teaching. Congratulations for your video! Your work is of high quality!
  • @ConfusedDom
    Where on earth am I going to find real life friends to talk about this kinda thing with? Or has the ego ideal image of the friend imagined as the subject of the other created an anxiety that causes me to have no friends anyway?
  • This took me around ten days to go through, stopping the video every sentence or so. It's a very good overview of the graphs, well done.
  • @user-bj5jw3ho3o
    Stunning work, thank you. Would happily pay a subscription for more frequent, longer length videos such as this.
  • @Maziedivision
    On enunciation , I’ve often found that having depression restricts me from identifying with my own thoughts,i.e, I could speak but not feel it is an “I” who is doing the speaking. The thoughts are floating in a way that’s external to my identification- it’s weird. But Lacanian theory captures this quite well. With depression, I wonder what becomes of the signifying chain ? Obviously there still is a semantic value to all I say, but this observation of never really feeling an “I” in what I say has always baffled me. In writing, I never feel it but in speech- I always do; some have even told me I speak between my teeth.
  • @luker.6967
    Your understanding is evidently greater than that of almost anyone else on this matter. You are doing humanity a service, thank you so much. ♥️
  • @Peter-ew5bq
    An extraordinary account of Lacan's graph, at once enlightening and evocative. Bravo!
  • @sergey.matrosov
    Brilliant work, thank you! Прекрасное, содержательное объяснение!
  • Just finished reading this chapter in Ecrits that talks about the graphs and thank you for this video, and as an academic, I appreciate the quotes
  • @hevorg1381
    I'm really pleased to have found this channel.
  • @mingusflavio4126
    Thanks for this video, it has been extremely helpful to understand Lacan's theory. I am currently writing a seminar paper where I need to discuss Lacan and Freud, and the fact that you integrated all these quotes from the Écrits really helped me to find the relevant passages I needed. Good job!🙏
  • @DosEquisMan45
    Genius explication of Lacanian desire & psychoanalysis. Absolutely brilliant.
  • Amazing work! Please don't stop! This is really inspiring me to get into Lacanian psychoanalysis. We have very limited resources and people who can explain to him in simple terms.
  • @tugbars4690
    Amazing, I was looking for such video since long time!
  • I was hoping for more discussion about the topic but most of what I see are thank yous and good jobs and a lot of generic gratitude.