Seminar 16
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 22 min
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Summary
Ryan and Todd delve into Lacan's Seminar XVI, focusing on his concept of surplus enjoyment as a revision of Marx's surplus value and its implications for understanding capitalism. They discuss the significance of this seminar as a culmination of Lacan's middle period, highlighting key concepts like objet a and abjaya. The episode also explores Lacan's critique of Sartre and the shift towards perversion in his later work.Episode description
Ryan and Todd discuss Lacan’s Seminar XVI: From an Other to the other. They focus on Lacan’s modification of Marx’s surplus value into surplus enjoyment and the implications of this discovery for the interpretation of capitalism. They frame this seminar as the end of the most fecund era of Lacan’s thought, a culmination that produces one of his greatest insights and the basis for a psychoanalytic theory of capitalism.
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