In the preface, Jacques-Alain Miller introduced this book will brings 3 lectures that haven't been published before.
He also said that sometimes Lacan will use funny expressions even in a way like comics, but I can't feel where it sounds funny(). For eg.
We've always known about the unconscious, but in psycho-analysis, the unconscious is an unconcious that thinks hard. Just a minute, just a minute.
It's just very similar to some sentences I heard recently (and would also use) that ignores the logic. In fact that's what I think psychoanalysis should be like.
1. The Place, Origin, and End of My Teaching
Place means something different from what it means in topology(which have to do with essence and then there is your place in the world. You usually get to that place by pushing and shoving, in short that leaves you with hope.).
The function of Psychoanalyst is not self-evident: when it comes to giving his status, his habits, his reference and even his place in the world, nothing obvious, nothing self-evident.
1953 in France for psychoanalysis a moment of crisis
lyrics: story
rhythm: emotion
logic: apparatus
A hole in truth is not a crude metaphor... there is an inability to aver
真理的空穴即在表达的不可能性。人可以从“说不出来”体会到真理之中的漏洞。它不是说一个有缝的容器可能滴下些水，它根本就是一个竹篮。
To avoid ambiguity, you may
create your own word
reduce it to algebra/literal elements
"Mental autimasm" means unconsciousness, Clerambault.
人是出生在言语之中，被抛入言语之中，然后通过言语成为人。Language was there before man; man is
born into language as into the world. Like Heiddger's dwell
born through language
Dream is the nodal points where discourse forms a hole.
Unconsciousness is structured like a language.
Truth begins to be establishedonly once language exists.
Organization of science: play. emerges "by itself"
A weaker logic is not less interesting than a stronger logic, infact it's much more interesting.
(People) refused to raise the question of origins. That was a wise decision. It is wise not to talk too much rubbish, and one always talks rubbish when it comes to origins.
Subject of the utterance: 言语表达中的主体/主语
主要是指那个说“我”的人
但没有“我”的一句话也有主语，有时候说话人并非主语
主语的所在不是它生产话语的范围，而是它被生产的范围。
——主体也是，主体位于它被生产的范围之内。
The signifer ≈ the element in language. // 能指
The signifer is what represents the subject for another signifer
Element requires formal and topological admission; it is not where it hangs out of Table O
Table O
= The Other
= site of speech （不是言语发生的地方，而是言语有了价值的地方）
=> site of truth （价值开创了真理的维度）
他者并不一定要是你提问/疑问的对象。你只需要一个你能说“Oh please God that ...”的人或者别的什么东西。而以上过程就会指向一个特殊的真理：The desire/欲望
欲望的逻辑是一种不在陈述句（indicative）中的逻辑。
它不是modal logics。
但是，the register of desire must be at Table O.
Table O = repercussion of the articulation of language at the level of the Other
Desire full stop is always the desire of the Other. 欲望，永远是他者的欲望
Communism: 让他者的愿望掌握政权，固执地捍卫越来越多的谎言。A desire of/for the Other based on justice in the redistributive sense.
而另一边：基于自由即是基于不公。如果你可以说任何话，那么你说什么都不会有效果。
// 这篇演讲的最后是对于精分师的未来的乐观表态。
Discussion
Q: over-simplify the act of speaking/possibility inherent in situation. overlook the ..
disagree Heidegger,
enter Logic of the preading,
语言永恒不变？
articulation sactified？
A:
objet petit a = where singular plallic absence is revealed
no intention of making critisms of society(which is always folly, and always.)
// 也许是悲观， 也许是顺口一说
人与动物的区别：尴尬
characterized bt extraordinary embarrassment he feels about
具体的一个表现为evacuation of shit。
在工业社会中，人根本感受不到粪便处理的存在，也没有大学为他开设一两门课。
这就是一种压抑现象：pheonominon of repression, bound up with decorum(礼仪) // 不知道在说哪种礼仪
所以文明的一种特征是它有废物处理系统。
Civilization's first and foremost point: waste-disposal system
So, great civilication = pipes and sewers.
e.g., Babylon, Rome
But we are not proud of it?
Culture is nolonger a privilage. Everithing recolves around the story/histoire of what happened to a certain gentleman
思维的高贵？
why confer nobility on thinking: As I cogitate, agitate, rummage around, it only begins to be interesting when it takes responsibility or come up with solution, fomula, formalization...
...points of history is history of thoughts
Structuralism: culture trend is mix and homogenize
No weltanschauungen: 没有所谓世界观的东西。
Godel: even arithmetric turns out to be a basket(full of holes)
holes in the button, lots of things escape from us.
"Systems should not be contradictory."
... but the fact is, ... :)
Stotle?: Organon
Freud:
Dream: any audiens is dreaming or thinking about his own business.
Fail
Lauge
Subject is not with subjective, not with individual,
it is a load of nonsense
it defines an effect of signifier, before it can be situated in
World -- Object = assume the existence of a subject
e.g. Aristotle 对 Sphere的沉思，可以发现的是，没有一个不涉及沉思的sphere的观念。
It is a wonder he hasn't been kicked out of the system.
intuitive categories
the goal of system => the system fails! == the subject lasts
如果我们感觉有地方可以下手、可以找到我们要处理的主体，那就是无意识。
梦、失败与笑只在a perfectly articulated way.
Goya:
The sleep of reason produces monsters. Reason encourages us to go on sleep
Freud:
wo Es war, soll Ich werden
Subject already at the level of the Es
In his second topography, perception-consciousness = das Ich
Lacan:
Communication funciton is never the most important aspect of a language.
So subject is not a message.
The subject of enunciationk != the subject of the utterance "I"(a shifter). Although linguists may call so.
try to construct a logic == try to eliminate the subject
but you'll find it(subject) again when you get to the end in all shapes of paradoxes
// 逻辑所在的地方没有主体性，合理化的尝试即是去主体化的尝试。但是你在那些符合逻辑的系统尽头的那些各种各样的悖论里面，你又会发现主体性。
inter-subjectivity:
tragic，无关于the order of communication
主体间性与人与人的交流无关
因为以语言的形式被结构的无意识就是主体
Hegel:
dazzling briliance!
something that negates we touch upon in dreams
namely that substance is already the subjects, before it becomes sbj.
Aristotle: difference between subject and substance
divorce, trauma :(
3. So You Will Have Heard Lacan
// 一些单词
buoyancy 浮力
vulgarization 庸俗化
// 大学是一个充斥了话语的世界
university: universe of discourse
not various stages of thoughts engender one another?
so is history the history of philosophy?
Descartes:
universitas litterarum
e.g. animals sick in the mind vs sick with plague
here bacillus won't be ill in itself --> the thought in itself is not an illness
// 对于有心理疾病的人，就像被某种有病的想法所感染，但是看看那个想法本身，它并不是有病的，就像对病菌来说病菌自己并不是病态的。
Philosophy tradition:
thought is self-transparent, isolated from "body" ( passion ... )
but Freud: go back to the level of relations with thoughts, brain-trusts
"It" thinks at a level where it cannot grasp itself is that it doesn't want to grasp itself at any price
... would rather reliquish itself than being thought.
... not at all willing to accept observations --> unconsciousness
Q. Is conscioiusness itself the most imponderable but autonuomus? unconsciousness just a detail/inference like a mirage?
Thought is not higher ... not a flower on top of evolution.
3 regesters
// 三界，它们的距离也是不均匀的，把它们放进一个列表里已是独断的
My Teaching
Jacques Lacan Translated by David Macey
In the preface, Jacques-Alain Miller introduced this book will brings 3 lectures that haven't been published before.
He also said that sometimes Lacan will use funny expressions even in a way like comics, but I can't feel where it sounds funny(). For eg.
1. The Place, Origin, and End of My Teaching
Place means something different from what it means in topology(which have to do with essence and then there is your place in the world. You usually get to that place by pushing and shoving, in short that leaves you with hope.).
The function of Psychoanalyst is not self-evident: when it comes to giving his status, his habits, his reference and even his place in the world, nothing obvious, nothing self-evident.
1953 in France for psychoanalysis a moment of crisis
lyrics: story
rhythm: emotion
logic: apparatus
A hole in truth is not a crude metaphor... there is an inability to aver
真理的空穴即在表达的不可能性。人可以从“说不出来”体会到真理之中的漏洞。它不是说一个有缝的容器可能滴下些水，它根本就是一个竹篮。
To avoid ambiguity, you may
"Mental autimasm" means unconsciousness, Clerambault.
人是出生在言语之中，被抛入言语之中，然后通过言语成为人。Language was there before man; man is
Unconsciousness is structured like a language.
Organization of science: play. emerges "by itself"
Idiots savants:
// 人脑的计算无法像计算机一样高效：这是否正好揭示一个事实，即，运算能力并不是意识的基础或本质？
Subject of the utterance: 言语表达中的主体/主语
The signifer ≈ the element in language. // 能指 The signifer is what represents the subject for another signifer
Element requires formal and topological admission; it is not where it hangs out of Table O
他者并不一定要是你提问/疑问的对象。你只需要一个你能说“Oh please God that ...”的人或者别的什么东西。而以上过程就会指向一个特殊的真理：The desire/欲望
欲望的逻辑是一种不在陈述句（indicative）中的逻辑。
它不是modal logics。
但是，the register of desire must be at Table O.
转喻：metonymy
不透明：opaque
诚实的：veracious
人的欲望要从他者处提取，变成“我的欲望”。此时轮到人自己去欲望时，他可以注意到，他被阉割了（crastrated）。
阉割情结Castration complex：
Methematics: the subject is fluid and pure.
LSD:迷幻剂？并不会弄乱能指链。
Believe the murder? Transference reflect something in past. 移情总是反映出一些过去发生的事。
Retro actively deffered action
分析师的沉默不意味着他们在观察。他们也被卷入了“这个实验”。可以说是Logic的而不是empirical（？）
Big O's little d: desire of the Other
Communism: 让他者的愿望掌握政权，固执地捍卫越来越多的谎言。A desire of/for the Other based on justice in the redistributive sense. 而另一边：基于自由即是基于不公。如果你可以说任何话，那么你说什么都不会有效果。
// 这篇演讲的最后是对于精分师的未来的乐观表态。
Discussion
Q:
over-simplify the act of speaking/possibility inherent in situation.
overlook the .. disagree Heidegger, enter Logic of the preading, 语言永恒不变？ articulation sactified？
A:
objet petit a = where singular plallic absence is revealed
2. My Teaching, Its Nature and Its Ends
// 一些单词
jargon 行话
unpretentious 朴实的 pretension 装腔作势的
quite a feat 壮举
expressly 明确地
exemplary 模范的
hubbub 尘嚣
folly 蠢事
spineless 没骨气
prodigious 惊人的 appetite 食欲
colloquium, co-loquate, Ecrit 座谈会
no intention of making critisms of society(which is always folly, and always.) // 也许是悲观， 也许是顺口一说
人与动物的区别：尴尬
具体的一个表现为evacuation of shit。
在工业社会中，人根本感受不到粪便处理的存在，也没有大学为他开设一两门课。
这就是一种压抑现象：pheonominon of repression, bound up with decorum(礼仪) // 不知道在说哪种礼仪
所以文明的一种特征是它有废物处理系统。
Civilization's first and foremost point: waste-disposal system So, great civilication = pipes and sewers.
e.g., Babylon, Rome
But we are not proud of it?
思维的高贵？
No weltanschauungen: 没有所谓世界观的东西。
Godel: even arithmetric turns out to be a basket(full of holes)
Stotle?: Organon
Freud:
Subject is not with subjective, not with individual,
it is a load of nonsense
it defines an effect of signifier, before it can be situated in
World -- Object = assume the existence of a subject e.g. Aristotle 对 Sphere的沉思，可以发现的是，没有一个不涉及沉思的sphere的观念。
Science:
Goya:
The sleep of reason produces monsters. Reason encourages us to go on sleep
Freud:
wo Es war, soll Ich werden
Lacan:
Communication funciton is never the most important aspect of a language. So subject is not a message.
inter-subjectivity:
tragic，无关于the order of communication
主体间性与人与人的交流无关
因为以语言的形式被结构的无意识就是主体
Hegel:
Aristotle: difference between subject and substance
divorce, trauma :(
3. So You Will Have Heard Lacan
// 一些单词
buoyancy 浮力
vulgarization 庸俗化
// 大学是一个充斥了话语的世界
university: universe of discourse
not various stages of thoughts engender one another?
so is history the history of philosophy?
Descartes:
universitas litterarum
e.g. animals sick in the mind vs sick with plague
here bacillus won't be ill in itself --> the thought in itself is not an illness
// 对于有心理疾病的人，就像被某种有病的想法所感染，但是看看那个想法本身，它并不是有病的，就像对病菌来说病菌自己并不是病态的。
Philosophy tradition:
thought is self-transparent, isolated from "body" ( passion ... )
but Freud: go back to the level of relations with thoughts, brain-trusts
Q. Is conscioiusness itself the most imponderable but autonuomus? unconsciousness just a detail/inference like a mirage?