A Tour of The Graph of Desire

Owen Hewitson April 21, 2020 A Tour of The Graph of Desire2023-04-02T13:41:01+01:00 6 Comments

This video goes on a tour of Lacan’s famous Graph of Desire, as elaborated in ‘The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire’ in his Écrits. We look at each form of the Graph, check in at each of its points, explain what all the algebra means, and go through the concepts behind it.

By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com

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Mike - May 19th, 2020 at 10:19 pm none Comment author #4080 on A Tour of The Graph of Desire by LACANONLINE.COM

Thank you . To my this video is a very good addition to ” againts Adaptation” by Van Heute.It is to be watched a number of times.
Dr. Salas - May 20th, 2020 at 7:22 am none Comment author #4084 on A Tour of The Graph of Desire by LACANONLINE.COM

Sweet!
vitor - December 5th, 2020 at 5:49 pm none Comment author #7190 on A Tour of The Graph of Desire by LACANONLINE.COM

A very good explanation. Is the author of this video also an author of books or texts on Lacan?… Thank you in advance.
Kory - December 11th, 2020 at 11:17 pm none Comment author #7322 on A Tour of The Graph of Desire by LACANONLINE.COM

Owen,

At around 21:30 in the video, you explain the voice as the “signifying chain, minus the effect of meaning,” citing a name that I can’t understand. Can you clarify where that citation comes from?
Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com - December 13th, 2020 at 2:59 pm none Comment author #7344 on A Tour of The Graph of Desire by LACANONLINE.COM

@Vitor – no, I prefer to use mediums that are free and have a bigger reach, like YouTube and the articles on this site.

@Kory – that would be Darian Leader, I believe that’s in his ‘Introducing Lacan’ – https://amzn.to/34pNK47.

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Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 – 1981.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the ‘Return to Freud’.

Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud’s work. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud’s work and psychoanalytic theory. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan’s to be a creative mis-reading of Freud.

However Lacan’s seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud’s text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. By that time, he had become a major intellectual figure in public life and had both created and disbanded his own school, separating his members both from the established psychoanalytic institutions and from each other.

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Today, Lacanian theory is advanced by a number of disparate groupings of his followers and the technique of psychoanalysis he developed is practiced clinically by Lacanian analysts around the world.

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