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I am shocked by how good essay 6 is, however I owe it to Laclau to point out his own hypocrisy showing in his EU-federalism. For his subjective stance misses the corollary of his theory: trans-national unions ALSO reinforce "fully fledged identities" and are therefore not NECESSARILY guarantors of sustained radical democracy vis-a-vis national identities!

Separate sections from the same chapter feel disjointed, like they were slapped together from varying essays. This entails repetition, to say the least

So far it has the appearance of being easy to follow, but feels extremely tough to grasp for me. We are aiming to show Marx and Lacan approach the same problem not from two but from the same viewpoint. Which is autonomous value and meaning production.

The piece by Zaloua and Zizek's response characterize completely what I call the post-Trumpian era of his praxis. Lacan is made to serve a populist Far-Left movement which denies admitting it is merely the polar opposite of what it pretends to emancipate (someone) from. The first sentence itself, the definition of anti-racism, is profoundly Fascist, if these Far-Left standards are to be applied.

Bjerre's essay is one of the greatest bits of Zizekian studies I've read; and Zizek's response is some of the best moments of separation. The absolute highlights of Zizek's own hypocrisy, as we are now informed by his latest works, are perhaps some of the most potent _demonstrations_ of the inconsistency of the Other (Zizek), and leave us to work-against him, as it were "rescuing Lacan from him" at times.

Might be the best explanation of jouissance so far.

Very good but awfully repetitive and tedious thus far.

I do not care much for this seminar up to this point.

It's fascinating reading phrases and theses I have written almost verbatim in my own work without having previously read Laclau. It so happens that starting from the same sources can indeed lead to the same conclusions when there is a "pass", that is to say, when there was a teaching passed.

Thought I'd re-read this just before Seminar XVII got delivered.

This may be some of the most difficult Lacan I've read. Lucid and poetic, but stupidly enigmatic so far.