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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.

I've decided to leave it to a suspended moment: it's both some of the more sustained criticism of Zizek's pathology, and a promise for a differentiation in evental valorization. Which, if successful, ought to be groundbreaking.

This also suffers stupid lack of editing.

Now this is the critique of Zizek he needs. I can't believe I'd missed out on a program so extremely close to my own articulation. Probably because H&SS never had the language I chose to interact with.

I am excited to be slowly working my way via a systematics towards the "necessity" of Lacanian universal antagonism. This is starting well.

This seminar is to Lacanian theory what Badiou calls counter-symbolization to the rush for symbolization. It is Lacanian theory's anxiety. And therefore needs to be studied thoroughly, even and especially in its impasses.

"A psychoanalyst who is happy with his act is a psychoanalyst beaten by the philosopher! He thought he was engaged in the analytic act, but he’s engaged in the philosophical act: he’s fulfilled, he has fulfilled himself."

This is by far the worst editing and typesetting I have ever seen in a Zizek book.

I find the Variations might be more valuable than the main body.

Spectacular.

So intense!