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Le Séminaire #18

On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII

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Il "discorso" di cui si tratta nel seminario del 1970 è è quello della possibile formalizzazione della psicoanalisi, ed è quello della produzione di senso (nell'esperienza della "lettera" o del significante che si fa nell'analisi, e di plus-de-jouir, nell'esperienza comune, in particolare in quella amorosa); tutti temi che riecheggiano sulla pagina come effetto di quegli anni di contestazione e femminismo. Attraverso l'individuazione di quattro posti (agente/verità; altro/produzione) e dei quattro operatori (soggetto sbarrato, significante-padrone, sapere, plus-godimerito), che nella loro combinatoria danno luogo ai quattro discorsi introdotti nel corso del Seminario dell'anno prima (del padrone, dell'isterico, dell'universitario e dell'analista), Lacan cerca di mostrare come solo al discorso analitico riesca di non essere un discorso da "sembiante", ovvero di "finta causa". Solo il discorso analitico, infatti, riesce a disfare le illusioni che si generano dal ritenere, sia pure in forme diverse, che vi sia una realtà prediscorsiva, e che il linguaggio, a sua volta, organizzi un universo entro il quale si genererebbe una relazione fissa e definitiva tra i quattro posti (e gli operatori che li occupano).

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

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Jacques Lacan

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Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.

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February 21, 2023
Great seminar. This is the follow up to the Other side of psychoanalysis. Lacan has introduced the four discourses, plus-de-jouir (surplus enjoyment), la femme n'ex-siste pas, there is no metalanguage, il n'ya pas de rapport sexuel, the logic of sexuation.... plus interesting reading of Confucianism (Master Kong) and Mencius (Master Meng). Pushed me to understand more about these central concepts of the late Lacanian period, all within the backdrop of the '68 protests.
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August 22, 2017
En el Seminario XVIII (Le savoir du psychanalyste, 1970-1971), Lacan juega con la idea de un discurso específicamente capitalista (o discurso del capitalista) que tendría la misma estructura que el discurso del Amo, pero con la primera pareja (izquierda) intercambiando posición: $ ocupa el lugar del agente y el significante Amo el lugar de la verdad...

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September 17, 2025
Lacan’s best rendering of the logic of the phallus and the nonrelation. He emphasizes something poorly understood even by contemporary Lacanians, “the phallus … is not the signifier of lack … but rather something from which no words flow” (149).
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April 1, 2025
I can’t find the official translation on here yet, since it came out in the UK but not in the US yet. He definitely answered a few questions, but gave me a few more to ponder as well, of course. This was ok, but I always say that the first time I read.

I loved the Chinese stuff! Hilarious.
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