It is difficult for us now to imagine the grand occasion of Lacan's teaching scene back then: you had to get there a few hours in advance, otherwise you would not be able to find a seat at all. The lecture hall quickly filled up. Psychoanalysts, future professors, actors, writers... They were just curious at first, but soon they were conquered. The ground was covered with cassette recorder wires, and people had their feet happily tied...
In France in 1966, Lacan was already the most famous psychoanalyst and philosopher. He was regarded as one of the four giants of structuralism, as famous as Michel Foucault. His thoughts have far-reaching implications, not only inspiring generations of analysts and scholars including Jacques Alainmiller and Žižek, but also extensively influencing the fields of literature, film, gender theory and other fields.
In Lacan's class, he would not use "penis envy" to describe the ambitions and ambitions of female students, and he never believed that becoming a mother was the destiny of every woman. He believed that the focus of psychoanalysis was to allow a woman to clarify her desires so that she could gain freedom of choice on whether to have children.
He taught people to look directly at their desires. He said that desire is the remainder of request minus need. Tolerate the dissatisfaction of the other person in the relationship. Because when needs are unconditionally met, desires are killed, and there is no room for any desires anymore, which will eventually lead to difficulties in a relationship.
He observed that caregivers in childhood reflect our self-image like a mirror. The caregiver's confusion and lack of love will lead to a person's disorder in self-perception and difficulties in self-development.
The four keywords of mirror, father, woman, and madman respectively correspond to Lacan's imaginary world, symbolic world, and real world, as well as his re-understanding of symptoms in his later years. The author dismantles Lacan's vast and complex ideological system and uses Lacan's words to answer popular topics such as self, desire, women, and the boundary between madmen and normal people in a popular way.
The perspectives that shine through allow readers to appreciate the enduring charm of this psychologist whose teaching was ahead of his time. As analyst Estella Solano recalled the time when she traveled all the way to Paris to meet with Lacan: He is already an old man and I don't know how long he will live. Although I know I shouldn't say this in front of him, the point is that I told him that his works will be immortal.
Reader comments
Maybe we still need an introduction to Lacan. This book is not suitable for beginners. Many terms and conclusions are thrown out directly, so I can't understand most of it even after reading for a long time. If beginners want to understand this book, they may need to combine it with various documents, explanations of words and conclusions, cases... And read it repeatedly and intensively?
Regarding Lacan's ideological system, I have only grasped four main concepts - the imaginary world, the symbolic world, the real world and the sacred state. The topological structure formed by their direct links is the code of the human spiritual world.
This book provides an in-depth and easy-to-understand interpretation of Lacan's psychoanalytic world, using the four key words "mirror, father, woman, and madman" to connect his ideological system. The writing style is easy to understand and the writing is smooth. The storyline is vivid and interesting, and the cases and viewpoints make it easier for readers to understand and accept. The discussion on topics such as self and desire is also very enlightening. It is a good book worth reading!
The symbolic world, the imaginary world, and the real world all originate from the analyticism of the human object domain. As analytical philosophy says, language is meaningful only within the context. Language is meaningless outside the context, and the spirit exists outside the context.
A good book, an entry-level book for psychoanalysis
Suitable for beginners, you can combine it with deepseek to check the concept while eating
Maybe we still need an introduction to Lacan. This book is not suitable for beginners. Many terms and conclusions are thrown out directly, so I can't understand most of it even after reading for a long time. If beginners want to understand this book, they may need to combine it with various documents, explanations of words and conclusions, cases... And read it repeatedly and intensively?
Regarding Lacan's ideological system, I have only grasped four main concepts - the imaginary world, the symbolic world, the real world and the sacred state. The topological structure formed by their direct links is the code of the human spiritual world.
This book provides an in-depth and easy-to-understand interpretation of Lacan's psychoanalytic world, using the four key words "mirror, father, woman, and madman" to connect his ideological system. The writing style is easy to understand and the writing is smooth. The storyline is vivid and interesting, and the cases and viewpoints make it easier for readers to understand and accept. The discussion on topics such as self and desire is also very enlightening. It is a good book worth reading!
The symbolic world, the imaginary world, and the real world all originate from the analyticism of the human object domain. As analytical philosophy says, language is meaningful only within the context. Language is meaningless outside the context, and the spirit exists outside the context.
A good book, an entry-level book for psychoanalysis
Suitable for beginners, you can combine it with deepseek to check the concept while eating
Psychoanalysis of speaking human words [Like]
Finally I can watch Lacan, it's very interesting