Thank you very much for these lectures, Derek. The Internet appreciates you.
@hadiboustany
3 жыл бұрын
As a neurotic subject myself, I have almost finished watching your whole channel in the span of one day. Thank you so much for these lectures, you are a marvelous teacher.
@selfcentric1
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing lectures. Thank you so much.
@vyrynio
3 жыл бұрын
I desire your teaching ”otherness” :) thank you !
@thealexis6647
3 жыл бұрын
Derek, I can’t express how thankful I feel to your works. Just recently found these series and…You are outstanding! I love how you connect, not only each parts of every series with a cliffhanger to keep us hooked, but also, after gracefully clearing the clouds you explain juust enough to connect it to the next topic. You have made the -real- impossible: an inteligible and organized Lacan! Sir, thank you for giving me hope, to finally *click* on all those tricky concepts that were starting to frustrate me into giving up. A very contagious passion you have. 👍
@robertdee
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent as are all the other videos - and really helpful. I had a buddhist housemate once who used the phrase 'the ethics of the private moment' which really stuck with me as an interesting idea to explore. I guess in the sense of the Big Other, there is never really a private moment. That said, there are often ethical differences in behaviour between when we (think we) are alone than when we are in company - though the ubiquity of cameras (CCTV and personal) and social media means those private moments are increasingly rare. The growth in Surveillance also makes me think that whilst we know we are being watching or monitored, we don't know for what purpose (legal, monetary - in terms of big data, voyeuristically) so perhaps the uncertain Ego Ideal of the Big Other makes us a bit more paranoid these days?
@derekhookonlacan
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Robert, one concept in Lacanian theory that might develop your theory is the notion of the gaze. There are different ways of approaching the gaze and the concept can be differently understood at different times in Lacan's work. Sometimes it is thought of as an anxiety provoking gaze of the Big Other. But we should also bear in mind that sometimes that the gaze from the place of the ego ideal can be affirming for the subject.
@robertdee
4 жыл бұрын
@@derekhookonlacan Thanks Derek - I did some work on the gaze for my film studies degree but that was more to do with the gaze of the spectator (and how Hollywood positioned it from a male perspective). I like the idea of the subject as the recipient of the gaze from the Big Other as that has some interesting creative potential.
@ValleyData
2 жыл бұрын
I feel I have mentalized this organically and love to see solomon was right about there being nothing new under the sun. The depths of life are unfathomable. Great work.
@renatoguedesf
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these excellent videos, the best resource for understanding psychoanalysis available in English on KZitem. I don't know if it makes sense, but I would guess that the discussion about whether the Big Other is in or outside is in itself a effect of language. As I understand, the preposition IN and OUTSIDE implies a spacial relation, well applicable for physical objects and certain abstract ones as well. As the conscious/unconscious domain is not in a place itself (the brain as a whole, the connections and patterns established?), and as you said the unconscious is language itself, the Big Other can not by definition be in a spacial relation of being inside or outside of it, it's in the very fabric the constitute the the mind - that operational effect of language. Cognitive Linguistics (Lakoff is an author in this area) show how language structure itself on metaphors and how languages draws upon material, concrete relations to build abstract, theoretical metaphors to explain the world (for example: life is a journey, is a metaphor which bases itself on the image schema of 'path' and is supported by correlations of changemotion and purposegoals). Considering that mind is a new area of research, elusive to any material correlation, it could be slippery for us in falling in these linguistics traps. Any thoughts?
@derekhookonlacan
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with your thoughts. The concept of Big Other complicates neat partitions between inside outside, hence Lacan's late turn to topology. I appreciate your input.
@LehrersLight
Жыл бұрын
You da man
@marinastant5249
3 жыл бұрын
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@animefurry3508
12 күн бұрын
If big other is not inside or outside, perhaps it is the divider its self, the cutting line of inside/outside. The big other is / Barred The veil itself.
@kerycktotebag8164
Жыл бұрын
I've seen ppl behaving as if something imperfect is just "the given" for the social situation, and even with the closest I've gotten to systematizing it, it hasn't really made it feel any less unnatural to me even if i can behave "as if" too. But I'm diagnosed as autistic, so that might have something to do with it.
@vidividivicious
4 жыл бұрын
I think Zizek in one of his lectures explains that Lacan doesn't say that the big other doesn't exist. In French, Lacan said "Il n'y a pas d'Autre" which is "there is not a big Other", not "the big other doesn't exist". I think Lacan means that the big other is not there as a thing, it is sort of an illusion. But nonetheless just us theorizing about its existence warps the reality of our thought as if it was a real thing. In a way, it exists and interacts without even being really somewhere
@derekhookonlacan
4 жыл бұрын
Apt comment, thanks. I agree. The paradox of the situation is that although the big other doesn't objectively exist as such we are obliged to act as if the big other does so as to coordinate everyday social interaction. But the distinction you draw is instructive. (One challenge we always face though is that over 30 years of teaching Lacan says so many things and changes his position that it is sometimes hard to settle on any one final position.)
@LoveAutopsy
4 жыл бұрын
Can you please rephrase "desiring the otherness of what is desired" or give a short example of it? What exactly is meant here? I am getting lost in a language here. Thanks!
@derekhookonlacan
4 жыл бұрын
The idea here is that for something to be desirable it has to be other than what I already am or what I already possess.... otherness is according to this theory, desirable. Although of course, in certain situations that desire might be suppressed.
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