Lectures on Lacan Podcast The Logic of Fantasy (Seminar XIV), Episode 6
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Jun 26, 2023 The podcast explores the concept of sublimation and its manifestation in interpersonal dynamics. It discusses the fear of intense oneness with the vagina and delves into the role of fantasy in Lacanian theory. The chapter also explores the concept of castration and its connection to the prohibition of incest and the experience of lack. It examines the role of the fallows in prohibiting auto eroticism and explores Lacan's concept of the dialectic between being and having in male fantasies.
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Where To Find Lacan’s Definition
- Read pages 157–158 of Seminar XIV to grasp Lacan's operational definition of fantasy.
- Treat fantasy as the split subject's mapping toward imagined sexual satisfaction.
There Is No Sexual Act
- Lacan's paradox: "the great secret of psychoanalysis is that there is no sexual act."
- The sexual act as absolute union cannot occur because castration and symbolic division intervene.
Acts Retroactively Signify
- For Lacan an act retroactively signifies by repeating a motor effect, e.g., saying "I am walking" marks walking as an act.
- Acts inscribe subjects into signifying chains by reduplication, not by prior pure agency.