so the pressure you felt from the audience to make a new video was actually your own gaze

@PlasticPills

3 жыл бұрын

It was not from the audience, unless you mean the one in my head

@Vladimir-Struja

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlasticPills yep : )

@theyeking7023

3 жыл бұрын

Tf How'd you get the Lacan head

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

@@theyeking7023 Lacan head is a meme that dates way back when lol

@theyeking7023

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU no I meant how do you comment a Lacan head or whatever head

All of a sudden my unstable sense of self - one of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, with which I’ve been diagnosed - doesn’t seem so bad, if no-one can ever realise their true self...

@nikatsereteli2347

3 жыл бұрын

+1

@rmcewan10

3 жыл бұрын

I am generally opposed to psychiatry for exactly this reason. Your diagnosis becomes an identity - you are a BPD person, not a person with BPD, and your diagnosis becomes a biological explanation for your problems. That’s before we get on to the political function of psychiatry as a tool of control; dissatisfaction with the society you live in becomes ‘depression’, which can be repressed (in every sense of the term) by being dosed with drugs. Alienation, transient consumer identity and the fragmented self become ‘BPD’. In the most obvious example, anxiety becomes an anxiety ‘disorder’. It individualises and medicalises affects that are at least exacerbated, if not produced, by society and social life. We live with a ‘therapeutic’ state, where the resolution to your problems become a continual ‘openness’, in some cases to a psychiatrist (who prescribes the necessary remedy to change this problematic and unproductive neurotic into a productive member of society), but most commonly to the society itself. Your identification as a BPD person is pleasurable because it compels society to recognise your feelings of instability and impersonality, but that is all that is done - these feelings are recognised, but they are recognised as symptoms to be treated, not as genuine affective states. The habit of putting your diagnoses in your Twitter bio is obviously in the first instance just another transient identity to attach yourself to, but it also functions as a kind of parasocial therapy, a cathartic act of disclosure - but one that permits your feelings to be medicalised and dismissed, instead of meaningfully considered and analysed. This is not to say that some psychiatric diagnoses don’t actually describe a biochemical reality, but as Mark Fisher puts it: the problem to be addressed is not that you have low levels of serotonin, but the thing that is causing you to have low levels of serotonin. Psychiatry in its current form is just another tool of regulation and control, another counterbalance of capital that dampens its psychologically destructive effects through literal (chemically or socially enforced) mind control. Some psychiatry is necessary, but most of it is BS.

@daniel-zh4qc

3 жыл бұрын

@@rmcewan10 100% its all made up...and there is a strange zoomer fetishization for being othered into some cognitive abnormal group so they gain externalized specialization to assuage the void within them left by reification and alienation.... Marcuse and Eric Fromm really nailed this one....

@rmcewan10

3 жыл бұрын

@@daniel-zh4qc I’m a zoomer who has only really got interested and involved in politics and social media over the past year or two, and I am taken aback by how bad things actually are. I’ve seen people castrating themselves (with evidence) for ‘feminism and BLM’, I’ve seen what may well have been real children tagging themselves as ‘MAP-friendly’, I’ve seen kids in the single digits being encouraged to transition; idpol and the whole cultural complex of purging the slightest dissent from the mainstream (always bourgeois) ideology on the left, and at the same time a revitalised and resurgent openly fascist right; it’s like the worst fever dream of Mark Fisher mixed with the worst prognostications of Deleuze and Guatarri. I’m just dumbfounded. I cling to the vague hope that there might still be some disruptive potential in this generation, if only because for us political extremism (more left than right thankfully, but still too often lib left) is the norm, but at this point I’m ready to embrace some form of Left-Accelerationism. Our discourse and politics is so utterly bizarre, so unpredictable, so authentically schizophrenic, at this point I don’t really know what else there is.

@BilboBaggins332

3 жыл бұрын

Neurodiverse Gang ✌✌

Thank 'The Big Other' for not removing the Jude Law clips

@PlasticPills

3 жыл бұрын

🙏

@TheFriendlyAnarchist

3 жыл бұрын

I Heart Huckabees is criminally underrated.

@jonatanbergli5344

2 жыл бұрын

"Big Other"... Shoshana Zuboff ?

"'You burn with hunger for food that does not exist.' 'This is good news?' 'It is the truth. To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame a feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.' 'The burning doesn't go away?' 'What fire dies when you feed it? It is not fame itself they wish to deny you here. Trust them. There is much fear in fame. Terrible and heavy fear to be pulled and held, carried. Perhaps they want only to keep it off you until you weigh enough to pull it toward yourself.' 'Would I sound ungrateful if I said this doesn't make me feel very much better at all?' 'LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.' 'So I'm stuck in the cage from either side. Fame or tortured envy of fame. There's no way out.' 'You might consider how escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage. And I believe I see a drop on your temple, right ... there .... ' Etc." -Lyle from the pump room (infinite jest pg 389.)

@CynicalBastard

3 жыл бұрын

Time to eat your own face.

@meganszalay5902

2 жыл бұрын

p good for a guy that licks sweat off ppl

Reminds me of this quote: “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride I've always been quite struck by how, as you put it, the "anxieties" of this thought process are something I've experienced, and this was the first quote I saw that put it to words so literally, but I can see the mapping of an idealized Self that I Desire onto some Image that I got from media, and how that gap will never be closed because, of course, the Image was just an Image, and not a Me that I could ever really "be".

I'm commenting only to be read.

I've watched this video four times now and my understanding matures like a fine wine on each iteration. I wouldn't say I'm ready for reading Écrite just yet, there's plenty more that I'm reading to give myself a descent platform for comprehending this challenging subject matter - studying the basics of semiotics at the moment. That said, my one concern about the publication of this superior video was that it might be too much of a leap for someone encountering Lacan for the first time. What amazes me, is that Lacan has never been a walk in the park to comprehend; yet your videos have made the concepts unbelievably accessible to a layman such as I. Therefore, when I think about it, had I never seen your older video, I would have done exactly the same as I am currently doing. Understanding it a little more each time I watch the video. I think that's the wonderful thing with your videos; you explain the subject so well, that there is always a doorway to pass through instead of a barrier to entry. Thank you so much.

@PlasticPills

3 жыл бұрын

That's encouraging to hear, thank you

@thebigcapitalism9826

Жыл бұрын

What did you read to give yourself a foundation? I’m very interested in Lacan (and Jung) and would like to do the same

@TheRakiah

Жыл бұрын

Be sure of which translation you get…

@Eridanibaker

Жыл бұрын

yea, same... more times though... i think i nearly know it by heart. It's very good.

@mr.knownothing33

Жыл бұрын

Yea I’m with you it’s impressive. Got any book recommendations just in general…

I love how all the advertisements on your videos on psychoanalysis are for self-help gurus, selling products to fulfill and resolve you. Zizek's hypothesis that the machine cannot tell coffee without cream from coffee without milk seems proven. What a funny world.

i rarely comment but i have to now - im impressed, this is one of the few good explanations of lacan available on the internet. i got through a lot of them because im trying to understand his thought rn (at least a bit). so thank you so much for this video, it helped to connect everything!

Well I wasn't first, so I guess I was the first loser. Best Lacan videos and explanations on the web.

So basically, the chap who invented the mirror is the progenitor of all our unfulfilled anxieties.

@krinkle909

9 ай бұрын

So God then? Since there are mirrors in water...😮

@benjaminking1250

8 ай бұрын

No, because the idea of the mirror or the role it plays in a person formulating their respective self would come about regardless. The mirror stage had to come before the mirror just in a different vehicle

@ilovepavement1

7 ай бұрын

hahahaha. After reading Lacan this week I came to the exact same conclusion. What the fuck Richard!

I just have to hand it to you, you do a great job, both as a writer and a performer. The fact that you left in the “slip up” when you began addressing the Real is next-level smart as the accidental gaff, the stumble, the error, announces or “displays” (Wittgenstein) the Real. Thanks so much for doing these, I hope you get all the imaginary things you want!

I was listening, then when I heard "celebrity" automatically, an critically, Chris Cornell came to my mind... then everything unfolded, nice to find such coincidence. I'd choose peace over fame anytime, being blessed with talent, looks or even sheer luck can be a deadly trap for the self. Great work indeed!

@FedericoPalma

9 ай бұрын

"You gave me a life, now show me how to live."

"Masquerade" had me expecting some inclusion of Lacan's formulas of sexuation, but you were using it in the conventional sense. It is notable, however, that the "masquerade" you reference is actually the masculine imposture of the phallic function rather than the feminine masquerade, which invites one to see what is behind the mask, which is nothing, the very lack of the barred subject. Your brief discussion of the gaze was excellent and gave me a sudden insight that in a way triggered something of my own feeble autoanalysis. I would comment that Lacan's discussion of the gaze is no little reference to Merleau-Ponty but quite a big one! Looking forward to that video.

@PlasticPills

3 жыл бұрын

Goddamn. I'm shocked... you saw the part of the script that I cut from that?

@IgnatiusEPJ

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlasticPills I had been studying it recently, so it was top of mind, I suppose. I think a video from you cutting across castration, the phallus, and the formulas of sexuation would be excellent. That topic, "there is no sexual relationship", badly needs an expression digestible to the non-specialist. It's click-baity too.

@CynicalBastard

3 жыл бұрын

@Josh Smith Don't be such a BIIIAAc-- I mean, UwU

@user-tk8bk9ww9q

3 жыл бұрын

@Josh Smith Zizek is not good for understanding sexuation, try with Genevieve Morel "sexual ambiguities", Its a good book

I've watched the old one at least four times over to try and fully soak it in. It was a (loud) window into something I'd never even heard of. It was amazing. This one is even better.

@joerobson6800

3 жыл бұрын

Are you a poet??? Loud Window is a wonderful phrase.

I have a tremendous difficulty in recognizing myself in mirrors and photographs. I have no idea what this means. It started about 6 years ago following an incredibly traumatic event. I've heard people describe "ego death" and that sounds like what I experienced. Even my memories before the event feel like a movie.

@Laurarat

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like dissociation not ego death

@latioswarr3785

3 жыл бұрын

Animals have trouble recognizing themselves in the mirror so don't sorry the ability to see ourselves in the mirror came later in evolution

@ulcus...

3 жыл бұрын

You still have a conception of yourself, an image that exists regardless of the visual image--to me, in agreement with a previous comment, this seems more like a dissociation from the visual image that is "yourself," something that I also experience although there exists not some traumatic event, some Real intruding into my imaginary and symbolic structures... I should read more.

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

@@latioswarr3785 My cat simply ignores mirror images of herself and sniffs the mirror. What does that say about my cat?

@alexanderleuchte5132

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like Depersonalization/Derealization which can be caused by trauma, maybe speak to a professional

For anybody who hasn’t already seen it “I heart Huckabees” is an absolute masterpiece, I love how you’ve referenced it multiple times in the original video and this one.

You are one of the best teachers of te world wide Web.

reminds me of the Margaret Atwood quote: "Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur."

The best video about Lacan ever. Thank you for your coherent, detailed and creative explanations with examples and images that are actual for our (post)modern society.

The Lacanian Chad strikes again

@PoetOfNoise

3 жыл бұрын

Celebreties are imaginary yeah. The chad is real though. I mean, look at him.

This... is so good. I am a 28 year old person and this kind of shifts my idea of the world and existence.

Just discovered your channel and i must say it's excellent! Production is great, the videos are easy to follow and you are entertaining enough to keep my interest but not over the top to make it silly. Very well done man. Thank you!

revision came out brilliant, nice work

Dude, ur videos have played a big part in my life lately. They answer so many questions I have. I’m promoting ur work in discord servers etc. u r awesome

_I_ really enjoyed this. Just wanted this to be seen. Great vid. Never had a problem with your visuals but they are definitely improving.

brilliant video thanks! I've been struggling with these thoughts recently and this has been very useful in helping me understand desire

This channel deserves more views. Great work.

You are very enlightening my brother, keep up the good work.

Half way through this vid, liked and subscribed. I’ve been trying to learn about psychoanalysis these past few months and couldn’t understand many things. This vid clears up so much for me. Thank you! Love from Taiwan ♥️

wow! Trying to understand Zitzen "The sublime object..." I stumbled across your podcast. Great stuff. Thank you very much. I just have to watch it like 3-4 times because the amount of information is huge. But I finally understand stuff

Just got into Lacan. Fascinating stuff

I love this so much, thank you for sharing and putting all this work into your life and this video

I love your content, thanks for putting up such a effort. I really appreciate it.

Dude you are great man, thank you for your work

Thank you for another clear and cool video. Maybe one on Lacan's concept of the Sinthome? Seems like it's not tackled that often despite it being of vital importance.

The content always prime but I have so much respect for all the talent and effort that goes into the editing. :)

You've done a great thing here.

I heart that Jude Law line. Great film. Thanks for the content. Just discovering Lacan through psychotherapeutic training. THE SOUND IS GREAT

I really liked this whole thing about celebrity as an example of an image of "completeness" regarding desire. I know psychoanalysis relates mainly to Freud, but this made me think of Adler and his whole thing of turning desire on its head and asserting that every moment actually is "complete" if we so allow in relation to his other ideas. Maybe I've missed the mark but it might be another angle to approach this sort of thinking from.

Brilliantly done!

This is something we all have to read, im going to, i love your videos man thanks

Thanks for the video. I think combining Lacan and Schopenhauer leads to wonderful places.

We’re all here from deciphered huh🧍🏽

@gianielol1502

3 жыл бұрын

yes👨🏻‍🦯

@veronikakavkova2232

3 жыл бұрын

Very much so

@oddfutureslostmember

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@ueeurahara8501

3 жыл бұрын

🙆🏻‍♀️

@islagibson4251

3 жыл бұрын

YUP.

5 minutes in and can already tell this will be a great video

Thanks for breaking down one of the giants of the past century.

i cried through most of this. the illustrations with the pyramid shape and the triangle of real-symbolic-imaginary remind me heavily of things i was furiously writing down and drawing this summer,

I liked the content a lot.Your sense of humour helps too...

Incredibly difficult subject, thank you for attempting.

Just in time when I need to learn this for class, perfect timing, thank you mr Pills :) had to read a primary text on the mirror stage, couldn't take out 1 thing out of it

That was beautiful, thanks.

Simply brilliant!

Love it man keep going !!!

What is this production quality?? It is THROUGH the roof.

Fucking fantastic. This is a very well done video. The editing is incredible. And, you demonstrate a superb understanding of very complex material. I’m subscribed.

@wojtalkex

2 жыл бұрын

Same

Consciousness falls under the complex systems category of 'strong emergence'.

I Must say, i found the old videos absolutely excellent. But its nevertheless great, whenever a lacan video arises out of plastic pills.

Great job here!

Thanks for the video

Hello, congrats for this great video. I would just add that watching it, one could think that Lacan is a very abstract and theoretical thinker. One should add that he also is a very attentive reader of many other great authors, in psychoanalysis, surely Freud, but also Jones, Balint, Klein, and so on, in philosophy, in art, and that his reflexion connects with many cultural and historical references, which gives a very interesting perspective to his thinking. In his seminaries he also described the analytical praxis a huge lot, and commented lots of cases described by others...So aside his general ideas, there are many many interesting things to discover in his work, because this is absolutely not the kind of theorician who exposes an idea and builds a very structured argumentation to support it. On the contrary, he tries to make others understand his conceptions from within the questions...Which gives his works a real complexity, one cannot read them ”half-minded”, it requires a lot of concentration. But it is also really brilliant in many occurrences...

thanks man good articulation on stuff

Dude, seriously, just keep doing these videos and one day you'll see your subscriber count blow up.

Bro i am a big fan. You came across much stronger in your ver.1. (the original) Damn Good. Damn Good, I am waiting for more. Cheers

Great lecture.

Done a great job!

such a good video

This reminds me of buddhism. I wonder if the 5 aggregates could be lined up with the 3 registers?

I appreciate learning about Lacan in this video. The use of mirror imagery is ever so clever relating to the drive in the pursuit of the gap of the 'I' without people being consciously aware of it; and the ensuing suffering as a result of never ending pursuit in one's life. While desire, delusion, illusion, anxiety, phenomenology are plentifully covered in buddhist literatures and expressed in the simplest terms as the Four Noble Truth for 2000 years, advertisement and social media continue to manipulate a lot of people with increasing effeciency. That industry has a upperhand in fostering desires with a sweet coating, as illustrated by this video. Are we the helpless consumers without care about the health of our planet?

"The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body." Friedrich Nietzsche

You and epoch philosophy are killing me and by me i mean it and by it i mean my mental life

Thank you (or the projection of yourself that you're creating out of your desire to be seen)

This is amazing

thanks a ton man. i love you

That was very good and very dense. Lacan, as interpreted by Plastic Pills, provides a theory, a framework for characterizing and making sense of the behaviors and expressions of people in a general sense. As for any theory we would ask: To what degree is it accurate? What inaccuracies may there be? What value judgments are being made? Can the characterized behaviors and expressions be seen in usefully alternate ways? My initial impression is that the theory characterizes many aspects of human behavior well. But as with any theory of behavior, it is a kind of template overlaid on quite complex behavior. We would need to be careful in assuming a theory as necessarily true and then trying to fit complex behavior into small boxes to support the truth of a theory already accepted. These theories are more useful in pointing the way. Sometimes the pointed way loses cohesion. Is that confusion because we misunderstood the theory, because we applied the theory improperly, that the theory does not apply in this circumstance, or that we need a better theory? In a theory like this and similarly for Freud’s ideas, because of their professions, are we dealing with individuals whose behaviors are not all that common in the general population? Severe neurosis is something to be treated but commonplace neurosis could be seen as healthy for the individual and society. Saying there is some fault in how humans perceive themselves and their reality does not necessarily follow from the simple observation that humanity in terms of population and adaptation are doing very well, perhaps too well on some measures. Apparently the idea is that when we understand ourselves according to Lacan’s theory that that will somehow help us avoid pitfalls the theory identifies. That there is someway to rise above these more automatic reactions and less useful behavior modalities. Except that the video implication is that though we may understand and be able to see that the theory applies to ourselves that, however, we can not escape to any significant degree. The impression from the video appears to be that we can work to minimize excesses identified by the theory and have overall better mental health even though we are still bound by it. That might work if we do not get too tightly bound by Lacan, in getting neurotic about being neurotic.

@sfopera

Жыл бұрын

Well, one has to consider that Lacan has had almost no impact on serious psychologists or psychiatrists. He's largely a humanities interest and read by people without training.

@marcomiranda9476

10 ай бұрын

@@sfoperathat couldn't be further from the truth

excellent work ! please do more deleuze

That was a great video.

you're a good teacher

Awesome video, once again! You are spot on man! Congrats!

Superb.

@PlasticPills

3 жыл бұрын

Big fan sir

Great video. This helps explain why I wanted my girlfriend to come over just to see how clean and organized my house was. Also, speaks to why I'd desire to leave this comment. What of ecstatic states and autotelic actions? When is desire a holistic outpouring of what is actually happening and not only a reaching out toward fictions bound up in egoic conceptualization?

My cat is going through the mirror stage right now. Today she saw me through the mirror for the first time and I can’t help but wonder if that was the first time she saw me as a subjective being, knowing that she herself is one looking at herself as an object and then seeing me both as a person and reflection 🤔

nice man.good job.hard things to explain :P keep up ,)

I hope you keep the first video as well

You rock mate!!

Could you make a video on Lacanian sexuation? This was greatly useful for making Lacan a little more understandable

I wanted a really good video on Lacan and this is perfect. Many thanks. My life is now complete.

I like this one thanks bro

Love the channel. The original Lacan was eye opening for me in a lot of important ways. This one is an interesting reframing. But, a word of critique...don't get too caught up in the bells and whistles. More fx does not equal better. In fact, they can distract from what you're trying to communicate. You could cut your render time in half and have a simpler, clearer presentation of your message. Find the balance. Just my 2c

Bro, love you 😍

Great video! I've got a couple questions though: firstly, does Lacan ever acknowledge the possibility that the whole life of the imagination may not be strictly born out of desire? For example, I can think of lots of times in both my sleeping and waking life when my imaginal world seemed to burst forth out of an experience of joy, triumph, or freedom. Even the genesis of imagination may not be reducible to one, single force. From what I'm gathering (and I could certainly be wrong), Lacan seems to think that being itself is ultimately reducible to desire - a claim which would require some justification. My other question is about Lacan's view of subject and object. My background is in Jung's analytical psychology and so I tend to view this sort of relation as a dynamic tension, which requires some gradation. In the case of the mirror, for instance, it doesn't seem to me that you can say that the image I'm seeing is an "object" in exactly the same way as any other thing I see in the world. The very fact that I recognize myself would suggest that I know it isn't just an object - in a certain sense, it is me. In the same way, then, I would think that both my conscious sense of myself and my image of what I could become speak something of "me," however partially. You might even say that the objective world speaks something of the real, however partially.

Great stuff, thanks for your awesome explanations and incredibly helpful visuals! I’d love to see you do a video on the (non)relationship between Kant’s transcendental and empirical egos and Lacan’s imaginary I/desire, perhaps through the lens of Fichte (?). Keep up the great work, my man!

Good stuff

So, what ever happend to "know thyself" Falling in love is a moment of understanding self and other...and a love affair will, eventually, indeed fill the emptyness within. I guarantee it. :)

There is certainly a certain sense of futility implied here, though i do think one of the last things you express is that personal development is futile... What else i take away from this is that the imaginary audience was already always there, so a realization of this brings fulfillment. Im also very intetested in Lacans diagram of desire if thats what its called, though i have to look more into it. Personally i do think there are a lot of very centering spiritual traditions out there, eastern mainly, sorry if thats a bit off topic. Good video, and a good connection to a current societal malaise.

Great video man. I would be curious to hear what Lacan's (and your) thoughts are on Buddhism.

@justinlanan2565

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know where he said it but I believe Lacan said something along the lines of "Buddhism is the best of the East". Not sure if he ever wrote or spoke much dealing with Buddhism as a subject of study. Plenty has been written by others trying to reconcile the two. But watching this video got me thinking about Buddhism myself. There is certainly a strong correlation between this PlasticPillsian 'we need to accept unquenched desire as fundamental to our being' and the Buddhist 'we need to accept impermanence as fundamental to our being' or something like that. The Lacanian real can abruptly destroy one's coordinates (ie traumatic or just plain absurd events like a stage actor laughing too loudly for too long during a play). This is kind of like how meditations on the impermanence of objects, bodies, and processes has the effect of restructuring your reality itself. Your underlying fantasies which restrain the Lacanian real are broadened in a gentle way instead of all at once like trauma/absurdity. Letting reality in gently to subsume the desiring ego, rather than reality abruptly harming the ego as life so regularly does.

@zacharylaws2558

2 жыл бұрын

Same! Definitely got me thinking about the paradox of seeking or “desiring” nirvana, to be free from these desires. Does achieving nirvana mean to be a “complete” thing? Idk this is all cool to ponder but as I get older I realize the best thing is to just cruise through life smooth brain style

I love your videos. Is there any sort of infographic on cultural studies so I can place all these theorists

I watch this video for therapy

@luizclaudio6724

Ай бұрын

By your writing I would say that you do need the Psychoanalist/patient relationship

The minute you tell me desire is lack I immediately see that as nihilistic. Which is why I vibe with deleuze and Nietzsche.

just out of mere interest have you considered / gone down the route of seeking a career in academia. Your passion and coherent explainations of otherwise impenetrable topics is something really encouraging and affirming to watch. I feel like the gross world of higher education would really benefit from someone like you.

I really like your work mate. I'm very much into Jungian psychology, but recently I've been trying to branch out. Ecrits is almost impenetrable to me so far, and your videos are helping a lot. I'm trying to keep an open mind, but I do find Lacan, from what I currently understand, incredibly bleak. I feel like a lot of his ideas might be applicable if you're a completely messed up person, but if you work hard in everything you do, including your relationships, are always trying to improve yourself, and keep well away from the toxicity of social media, consumerism etc, then why would you need someone to sit there telling you, 'You know, whatever you think you love about your girlfriend, you've just invented it, it doesn't exist; there's a hole in you that will never be filled and whatever you think you are, you're not'? I mean, how does that help you stand tall in the face of your own mortality and live a meaningful life?

@jackbarton4938

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmah5553 That's a very interesting point mate. Thanks for your reply.

@thomaswest4033

8 ай бұрын

​@@jackbarton4938what did they say?

@ThePinkArab

7 ай бұрын

@@jackbarton4938 what was @jmah5553's response?

@trukxelf

6 ай бұрын

Millions of great people have done great things in the face of this predicament. Happiness and meaning are not that important when one is compelled to do the work they’ve decided must be done. If you require “meaning” just make it up as you go and stop learning from the great thinkers that asked hard questions.