Lectures on Lacan Podcast

Our lecture series on Seminar XI ended on the topic of THE DRIVE — and with so much still to discuss that I went on to deliver two additional lectures on the topic. The video recordings of these lectures on THE DRIVE are available on YouTube, but I know many of y’all prefer to tune in via audio, so here’s the first installment in a four-part podcast series derived from these lectures, along with t...

Here’s the final episode in our podcast series on Seminar XI, along with two of the diagrams we discussed in the original session — the second of which, I believe, is crucial for understanding how Lacan concludes this pivotal seminar. If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE ....

Here’s the penultimate episode in our podcast series on Seminar XI. Enjoy! If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Here’s the fifth episode in our podcast series on Seminar XI, along with some of the diagrams and drawings that cropped up in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or g...

Here’s the fourth episode in our podcast series on Seminar XI, along some of the diagram work we did in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

Here’s the third episode in our free podcast on Seminar XI, along with two of the diagrams we worked through in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on Seminar XI, along the diagram we developed in the original session — one I’m sure you’ve seen before! If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen or so new and expanded diagrams, you can do so HERE . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other s...

Our recent podcast series on Anxiety (Seminar X) is now complete, so it only makes sense to continue with the next seminar in Lacan’s trajectory: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar XI). Here’s the first of seven episodes in our new podcast series on Seminar XI, and below is some of the diagram work we did in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on...

Here’s the final episode in our 12-part podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with some of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to...

Here’s the penultimate, eleventh episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with two of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would l...

Here’s the tenth episode in our 12-part podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the summative diagram we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to...

Here’s the ninth episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the diagram work we did in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

Here’s the eight episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with two of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

Here’s the seventh episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the formula we workshopped in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss thi...

Here’s the sixth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session: If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with ot...

Here’s the fifth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with two corresponding diagrams, both developed in the original session: If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss t...

Here’s the fourth installment in our podcast series on anxiety — along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session: If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

Here’s episode 3 in our new series on a n x i e t y . And here are the diagrams we developed in the original session: If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with othe...

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on anxiety! And here’s in image of the diagram we developed in the original session: If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to dis...

With the winter holidays fast approaching, and perhaps some angsty family dynamics as well, it seems like a particularly good time to launch our new podcast series on . . . a n x i e t y . As many of you know, Lectures on Lacan began at the behest of an intrepid group of clinical psychology doctoral students, all of whom attended my summer 2021 seminar on “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dia...

This episode on “Science and Truth” brings us to the end of Écrits . And in bringing us to the end of Écrits , it also offers a convenient stopping point (or maybe just a pausing place) for our podcast series on often overlooked essays in the volume — just in time, coincidentally enough, for the start of our new lecture series on The Logic of Fantasy (Seminar XIV) ! This episode on “Science and Tr...

This episode begins with Lacan’s account of “the cut brought about by the heteronomy of the symbolic” and ends by explaining his frequent claim that “the true father — that is, the symbolic father — is the dead father.” If you’ve ever wondered what, exactly, Lacan means by “the symbolic,” this episode’s for you. First up in the episode: imaginary triangles comprised of the child (read: fragmented...

Good Lacanians, like good Hegelians, often enjoy counting. Odd-numbered counts tend to be the most productive. Hence, today’s triangulated podcast episode, which features Lacan’s response to Hyppolite’s commentary on Freud’s little 1925 essay on “Negation.” Three essays in one episode — hang on, y’all! But it’s a single even number — 4 — that often keeps Hegelian and Lacanian thought moving, so be...

Reading Écrits is like riding a bike — not because you never forget how (on the contrary!) but because different essays in the volume often require different intellectual gears. Some essays, like those featured in our concluding session on the drive , have to be read slowly, in the lowest conceptual gears we’ve got. While other essays, like those covered in this week’s podcast, allow for much quic...

Here’s a little episode on a little essay in Écrits with lots of iconic themes strung throughout: Truth, language, and the unconscious, triangulated at the level of the signifier, and thus the subject as well… How need conditions demand, and vice versa, setting the stage for castration… What, exactly, the non -of-the-father prohibits… Dreams of wholeness, nightmares of being torn apart… And, of co...