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Lectures on Lacan Podcast

Prof. Dr. Samuel McCormick

Lectures and commentaries on key texts in Lacanian psychoanalysis lecturesonlacan.substack.com

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85:15

Seminar XI, Episode 1

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/02/20

Our recent podcast series on Anxiety (Seminar X) is now complete, so it only makes sense to continue with the next seminar in Lacan’s trajectory: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar XI). Here’s the first of seven episodes in our new podcast series on Seminar XI, and below is some of the diagram work we did in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Seminar XI, including 8+ hours of video-recorded lectures and a dozen new and expanded diagrams, you

81:29

Anxiety, Episode 12

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/02/06

Here’s the final episode in our 12-part podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with some of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

74:54

Anxiety, Episode 11

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/01/30

Here’s the penultimate, eleventh episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with two of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

73:43

Anxiety, Episode 10

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/01/23

Here’s the tenth episode in our 12-part podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the summative diagram we developed in the original session. If you’d like to access the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

88:43

Anxiety, Episode 9

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/01/16

Here’s the ninth episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the diagram work we did in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

72:20

Anxiety, Episode 8

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/01/09

Here’s the eight episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with two of the diagrams we developed in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

101:59

Anxiety, Episode 7

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2023/01/02

Here’s the seventh episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the formula we workshopped in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

58:34

Anxiety, Episode 6

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/12/26

Here’s the sixth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

105:55

Anxiety, Episode 5

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/12/19

Here’s the fifth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with two corresponding diagrams, both developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

83:10

Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 4

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/12/12

Here’s the fourth installment in our podcast series on anxiety — along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

88:47

Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 3

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/12/05

Here’s episode 3 in our new series on a n x i e t y .And here are the diagrams we developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

89:23

Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 2

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/11/28

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on anxiety! And here’s in image of the diagram we developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

86:23

Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 1

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/11/21

With the winter holidays fast approaching, and perhaps some angsty family dynamics as well, it seems like a particularly good time to launch our new podcast series on . . . a n x i e t y .As many of you know, Lectures on Lacan began at the behest of an intrepid group of clinical psychology doctoral students, all of whom attended my summer 2021 seminar on “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire” at Pacifica Graduate Institute — the same doctoral seminar which yielded the first

44:48

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Science and Truth"

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/11/01

This episode on “Science and Truth” brings us to the end of Écrits. And in bringing us to the end of Écrits, it also offers a convenient stopping point (or maybe just a pausing place) for our podcast series on often overlooked essays in the volume — just in time, coincidentally enough, for the start of our new lecture series on The Logic of Fantasy (Seminar XIV)!This episode on “Science and Truth” also gives us a chance to summarize some of Lacan’s key thoughts on two important themes, both

45:49

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "The Situation of...

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/10/25

This episode begins with Lacan’s account of “the cut brought about by the heteronomy of the symbolic” and ends by explaining his frequent claim that “the true father — that is, the symbolic father — is the dead father.” If you’ve ever wondered what, exactly, Lacan means by “the symbolic,” this episode’s for you.First up in the episode: imaginary triangles comprised of the child (read: fragmented body), the primary caregiver (read: maternal function), and the imaginary object (read: phallus). Our

41:08

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Response to Jean...

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/10/18

Good Lacanians, like good Hegelians, often enjoy counting. Odd-numbered counts tend to be the most productive. Hence, today’s triangulated podcast episode, which features Lacan’s response to Hyppolite’s commentary on Freud’s little 1925 essay on “Negation.” Three essays in one episode — hang on, y’all! But it’s a single even number — 4 — that often keeps Hegelian and Lacanian thought moving, so be on the lookout for a quadrangle of terms in today’s episode: affirmation (Bejahung), negation

17:49

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Introduction to...

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/10/13

Reading Écrits is like riding a bike — not because you never forget how (on the contrary!) but because different essays in the volume often require different intellectual gears. Some essays, like those featured in our concluding session on the drive, have to be read slowly, in the lowest conceptual gears we’ve got. While other essays, like those covered in this week’s podcast, allow for much quicker reading.So it’s no surprise that our second often overlooked essay of the week, “Introduction to

10:16

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On a Purpose"

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/10/10

Here’s a little episode on a little essay in Écrits with lots of iconic themes strung throughout: Truth, language, and the unconscious, triangulated at the level of the signifier, and thus the subject as well… How need conditions demand, and vice versa, setting the stage for castration… What, exactly, the non-of-the-father prohibits… Dreams of wholeness, nightmares of being torn apart… And, of course, why we’re more like worms than horses. Best of all in this episode, though, is our

23:58

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the...

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/10/03

Our final episode on this often overlooked essay in Écrits begins by returning to the topic of speech. Because speech is always addressed, its meaning is always intersubjective — in keeping with the etymology of “communication,” which has nothing to do with unity but, instead, traces its origin to the Latin word for sharing. Classic 1950s Lacan.Which brings us back to another classic theme: truth vs. knowledge. This time, however, the operative word is ignorance. According to Lacan, ignorance is

29:45

Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the...

Lectures on Lacan Podcast ·

2022/09/30

“Variations on the Standard Treatment” is about life and death — but not as we usually conceive of these basic human experiences. Between early lives tinged with death and encounters to come with this absolute master, there are egos fixated on images of life and, thank goodness, analysts who know the benefits of playing dead (and, wherever possible, dumb as well). What egos guard against, analysts help them confront, suggesting that psychoanalysis is not just about learning how to die, but also,

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