"Television": Lacan on the unconscious.

The subtitles provide a poor translation of Lacan. He really knew what he was talking about. I can see people getting offended by his intellect because they can't understand it. The words you are reading here are NOT him. Read the Ecrits. It's tough, but it's a lot better.

Good lord, what idiocy! Can anyone please define anyway this pretentious nonsense affects the real world? Who's helped by this?

Lacan is helpful it that he address the interactive programming structure of thought/language on the human psyche. In the video, he is talking about the "Matrix" of unreality created by language. In the film, Morpheus said, "What is real?" That film is a part of Lacan's legacy. He revised the work of Freud. He has brought clarity to the world in ways unrealized by most. Anybody that can walk into a Nazi headquarters and walk out with his wife unharmed has something valuable to tell us alll.

My god. What a hideously shallow life of self aggrandisement this man led. The verbose, twisted prose, the portentous yet meaningless phrasing, the thousands of adoring second year university students. To waste peoples talent by having them untagle this convoluted pretentious bullshit is a travesty indeed.

Be careful everybody ! Independently of all the discussion on Lacan's intellectual distinction, the most of the subtitles are not precise and some are completely wrong , so deviating the watcher from the real meaning Lacan intended. Try to focus your atention only on his speech.

If we are dealing with health then it is a scientific concept. Since when did the gobbledygook of Aristotle and Hegel become 'modern philosophical tradition'? Have you read Damassio or Pinker or Kahneman or Ramachandran? Damassio btw directly refutes Descartes.

HA, you read Damassio and Ramachandran those people are hacks, they were directly refuted by the psycho-scientific discoveries of Pochvennichestvo, Annensky, Blavatsky, Prabhavananda, Balasubramanian. If you haven't read all the books written by all these people than i have a higher IQ than you.

IQ has nothing to do with the authors you have read. It is supposed to be an innate property.

You can verify quantum mechanics through experimental observation. Try doing that with Lacan or indeed almost all of psychoanalysis. Neuroscience has moved on. This stuff was considered acceptable at the turn of the last century

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