Lectures on Lacan Podcast The Logic of Fantasy (Seminar XIV), Episode 7
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Jul 3, 2023 This podcast explores Lacanian psychoanalysis and the concept of fundamental fantasy. It delves into the connection between the fundamental fantasy and language, the sexual subject and its implications, the relationship between signifiers and death, Julie Sontz and the concept of embodied enjoyment, the myth of Eve and the dialectic of the sexual act, the fantasy of enjoyment in male-female relationships, and explores movement and the role of the analyst.
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From Desire To Localized Drives
- Traversing the fundamental fantasy moves one from desire to drive by confronting the Other's lack.
- The drive operates on localized bodily openings (erogenous zones), not on external objects.
Host Mentions Cold While Teaching
- McCormick mentions he has a bad cold while describing pulsative openings like respiration.
- The physical example underscores the rhythmic, in-out nature of drives and erogenous zones.
Sexuation Introduces Two Lacks
- Sexualation imposes a loss: libido is subordinated to reproduction and the species' continuation.
- This loss produces a first lack; symbolic alienation produces a second, both tied to death and prohibition.