What is Repression? (Part I)

Part I of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis, beginning with Lacan’s interview to the French magazine L’Express in 1957. Link to the interview: https://www.lacanonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Interview-with-Jacques-Lacan-LExpress-1957.pdf By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com All content on LacanOnline.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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What is Anxiety? Video Introduction to Lacan’s Theory

10 minute video introducing Lacan’s theory of anxiety as the sensation of the desire of the Other, through the story of the praying mantis he tells in Seminars IX and X, and the example of childhood phobia. By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com All content on LacanOnline.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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In the Villa of the Mysteries – The Character of Desire in the Traumdeutung and Seminar V

A woman reports two dreams to Freud: 1. She dreamt she was going to the market with her cook, who was carrying the basket. After she had asked for something, the butcher said to her: ‘That’s not obtainable any longer’, and offered her something else, adding ‘This is good too’. She rejected it and went […]

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Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis – Part II

Let’s start with an obvious question that followed from the first article in this series: how is the use of topology in psychoanalysis not just metaphorical? How is it not, even, mystification? Remember that Lacan is making a bold assertion, as stated in L’Étourdit from 1972: “Topology is not ‘designed to guide us’ in structure. […]

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From the Bridges of Königsberg – Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis

For Part II, click here. This is the first of two articles that will explore Lacan’s idea that human subjectivity has the structure of a topological space. In the early eighteenth century the city of Königsberg, now part of modern-day Russia, was connected by seven bridges which linked the two islands of the city with […]

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