Jacques Lacan in 10 Minutes 

*While the Real cannot be cured, the main purpose of Lacanian psychoanalysis is to dismantle the specular image, which begins in the mirror stage, loosening its narcissistic fixation on itself, to recognise our fundamental relationship with the other, which is ultimately, what we really are.* Support this channel: www.patreon.com/eternalised RU-vid Member Perks: ru-vid.com/show-UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkAjoin Donate a Coffee: ko-fi.com/eternalised PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial Official Merch: eternalised.creator-spring.com

This is easily the best 10 min summary on Lacan one can watch, very good work. Very good foundation to then dig deeper.

man I just discovered your channel, please keep it up, I really appreciate your effort in summarizing and explaining philosophies in an elegant way

This is so helpful! I love psychoanalysis but Lacan is a difficult nut for me to crack. Definitely felt some things click while watching this, will have to rewatch many times:)

Incredibly insightful video! I don't have anything to add that hasn't already been said, but as a university student covering philosophy for the first time in my degree, this video was a truly a gift. Thank you for your hard work!

Thank you for a great analysis using this for an English lecture

Great lecture buddy, I did enjoyed your analysis and summary on Lacan

Good thing Jungien psycho-analysis is most widly used.Youre explaination is really good, but god damn Lacan just tried to make a complex subject even more complicated!

I love your channel. Its hypnotic in a good way. Thank you.

A really enlightened piece, you put together. Thaax!!

Great video in a nutshell of 10 minutes. Very good - thanks for doing this videos :)

Hello, Congratulations, you've grown quiet a lot since we last spoke. Well deserved and much more to come. I silently admire all your videos (and share them immensely), and they being one of the reasons why I decided to switch to studying philosophy formally. I really respect your work and this video (along with your videos on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.) is the richest, most complex, and informative out of them all. Since this came out, I've been watching it and this is my fourth watch. This is by far your most informative and visually most stunning video. It look me six pages of notes to understand it and well worth it. First of all, I'll just derail into telling you how important these "10 minute" videos are, especially in a time where people lack the attention span and investment of time to try to understand these complex ideas. You are doing your part in making philosophy and psychoanalysis accessible to anybody. Especially, when philosophy as per the mainstream has lost its relevance. Congratulations, on the tremendous feat that you have been achieving. Back to the video, I feel you were onto something very profound when you were talking about certain things like: the Ego made of alienating unconsciously adopted ideas and attitudes which one is subjected to, "The Desire of the Other;" the miss recognition which happens throughout our lives; how linguistical dynamics play a role in shaping our dependence on the imaginary; dependence of the imaginary on the symbolic, the Heideggerian Throwness; the Big Other being a network of interlinked signifiers that delicts the analytical unconscious; the paradox of the Real helping us function, as well as function properly; then lastly, when you spoke about later Lacan adding the fourth register - Sinthome. You're definitely on to something here. I had a question, which texts did you read to prepare this video? Did you look at Lacan himself directly, or through someone like Zizek, who also has a great interpretation of him as well? Was he easy to read? Lastly I'll give my suggestion here, as someone who loves your channel immensely and knows the important role you're playing to make these ideas accessible and that too free. The suggestion are- 1. Please do more videos on Lacan and his "return to Freud," also, Lacan's reading of Hegel and so on. Also the topics I mentioned above. 2. Some videos on Hegel would be really helpful, for he's the most complicated thinker ever to exist. Things like the theory of alienation in the Phenomenology, dialectical materialism, Negation of Negation, Hegel's critique of Kant, synthesis emerging from an antagonism of thesis and antithesis, Spirt and mind and so on. 3. Videos on Immanuel Kant's metaphysics. For Kant started the German Idealism, which Hegel completed. The Phenomenon and the Noumenon, concepts, transcendental idealism and so on. For me personally, Kant (along with Plato and Aristotle) is the most important figure in the history of philosophy. In general, I will be indebted to you if a mind like yours goes into German Idealism. I think there's a lot for you to take from there. 4. Lastly, I would be grateful if you did some videos on Slavoj Zizek, who is arguably the greatest philosopher alive today and along with philosophy, him also having a PhD in Psychoanalysis also makes his works richer by interpreting the same issue through philosophical and psychoanalytical (also socio-politcal) lens. For me your channel is primarily philosophy and you being one of the greatest philosophy channels on RU-vid, should definitely do videos on the greatest philosopher alive today. I think you'll find a lot there, in his dialectical materialism and his reading of Hegel, Lacan, how he explains complex systems through the help of movies, fiction novels, often jokes. Also, his greatest book, (more than a thousand pages) Less Than Nothing - I would love to see LTN in 10 minutes or the Sublime Object of Ideology in 10 mins, Absolute Recoil in 10 mins and so on. Out of all the suggestions I mentioned, I would wish you to do videos on Zizek as my prime emphasis (and Hegel if you can). Bonus: Noam Chomsky. I liked how in the video you mention Ferdinand de Saussure's work and talk about the role of language in shaping how we see reality (or reality shaping language). Chomsky's work in linguistics has been very profound and de Saussure also is one of his prime influences. You talked in the video about structuralism briefly, how the laws, norms, institutions, traditions etc structure our socio-cultural environment and connected that to the Big Other. Lacan's idea of The Unconscious being structured like a language. Sorry for the awfully long wtite up. Would like to thank you once again and my regards to you. Wish you all the success and happiness.

This channel deserves way more likes. Keep up the great videos.

finally i found a simple wand well explained introduction to lacan grat video this channel deser ves more views honestly

I don't know much about Lacan so this was a great summary. Thanks bro!

This video is extremly well made. I am 4 minutes in and I can no longer watch the video. My mind is overwhelmed with. I will come back later and share my full thoughts. Wish me luck

Great summary, very helpful.Can you please post the titles of the paintings on the video?Excellent choices.

Great lecture. Your way of speaking and explaining is so clear that it can be easily translated to other languages. Congrats

great vid, where do you find all of the beautiful art you put in the video?

Wow, Great and well researched video! Honestly I never heard of this guy but he and his ideas seem very interesting! Gotta explore psychology now Lol! Fantastic, Keep It Up Buddy! :)

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧠 *Introduction to Jacques Lacan and His Influence* - Overview of Jacques Lacan as a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. - Mention of Lacan's notable ideas: The Imaginary, the Symbolic, the Real, and the Mirror Stage. - Lacan's influence through yearly seminars and the significance of his book, Écrits. 01:26 🤔 *Lacan's Critique of Ego Psychology* - Lacan's view of the ego as an object, not a subject. - Critique of Anglo-American ego psychology and the error of explaining human behavior through an autonomous ego. - Emphasis on the idea that the unconscious is structured like a language. 02:47 🗣️ *Lacan's Notion of Language and the Unconscious* - Influence of Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic structuralism on Lacan. - Explanation of signifier and signified in semiotics. - Connection between language, the unconscious, and the ego. 03:40 👶 *Lacan's Mirror Stage and Its Impact on Identity* - Introduction to the mirror stage in human development. - Explanation of the specular image and the emergence of the ego-as-object. - The impact of the mirror stage on identity, alienation, anxiety, and neurosis. 05:22 🔄 *Ego as "Desire of the Other" in Lacan's Framework* - Exploration of the ego as the desire of the Other. - The role of misrecognition and how the ego embodies unconsciously adopted ideas. - Connection of the mirror stage with the Imaginary order. 06:44 🌐 *The Imaginary's Intrinsic Role in Lacan's Theory* - Explanation of the Imaginary's role in ego-formation. - The relationship between the Imaginary and the Symbolic. - The importance of the Imaginary in shaping intra-subject and intersubjective relationships. 08:06 📜 *Lacan's Concept of the Symbolic Order* - Definition of the Symbolic order or "the big Other." - How socio-linguistic structures shape and determine individuals. - The individual's connection with the Symbolic from birth. 08:31 🔍 *Lacan's Core Concept: The Real* - Explanation of the Real as the core of Lacan's triad. - The elusive nature of the Real and its resistance to representation. - The Real's impact on anxieties, neuroses, and experiences in traumatic events. 09:56 🔄 *Integration of Lacan's Four Registers* - Introduction to the sinthome or symptom as the fourth register. - The purpose of Lacanian psychoanalysis in dismantling the specular image. - Recognition of fundamental relationships with others as the essence of what individuals really are. Made with HARPA AI

Great work! this channel is going to blow up

Great summary

Great video!

Whats the painting you used at 1:14 ? Great video btw!

thank you for this

This is brilliant, thank you

Pyrrhonian skepticism has some similar theories with the signifier and the signified. indicative signs and recollective signs are like deeply focused upon. being able to deduce things based on what has been learned and what has been experienced.. and how our perceptions influence what we think we know about reality. its interesting. that just reminded me of that little tidbit i read in one of my sextus empiricus readings last year

What book can u recommend about the there ideas you present here.

Really helpful plz can you give explain butler subversive bodily acts before 15 December

Love myself some Post Structuralists. Plus got to know some stuff that I didn’t know in the 10 min treat :)

Constructive criticism from a linguist: you have an accent. Rather than trying to hide it, for a listener, it is much more comfortable to hear the accent (because we can them "expect" certain misprunciations). 🙏 I really love your series, thanks!

i just came here to say that i love learning about philosophy/psychoanalysis with this mystical backround music lmao!

criminally underrated introduction to lacanian thought

Very nice! But no reference to the Name of the Father...?

Great content but why oh why are there no pauses in the delivery in order to allow listeners to properly absorb the incremental information being imparted? It comes across as a seamless stream of words with no regard to how it is being consumed.

Is Lacan saying the ego cannot exist without a mirror or reflection? Must "self as other" only develop where there is a visual representation in a reflection?

Thank you for a superbly cogent summary.

Squid games brought me here. Very interesting.

Je pense que tu peux comprendre la langue française It’s very useful to learn more than 3 languages Lacan and derrida in french were fun to read

So what would happen if a baby has never seen a mirror in his life

I've never thought much of philosophy that refers to something unknowable as explaining why we do things or why things occur. Lacan's conception of the real that you explain sounds quite mystical in that way. Am I off base? Or is he advocating for a kind of mysticism qua mysticism?

I think that Lacan completely misunderstod the basic idea that underlies the so-called "Anglo-American Ego-psychology". Ego-psychology does not try to posit an ubiquitous ego that governs and controls completely and unilaterally the entire human psychic life. Ego-psychologists just tried to study the ego itelf as an psychic instance in its relation to the Id and Superego. They did not refute the fundamental Freudian premise that the ego derives from the Id. They were interested in ego development, how exactly it works, how it defends itself against the other two psychic structures defined by Freud. The problem with Lacan is that he actually did not produce anything that was trully and originally his own in a theoretical sense. He stole other thinkers' ideas, including those of Freud, very skillfully modified, combined and synthesized them (he was a great magician in that field) and presented them as something uniquely his.

You are a great explainer of Lacan but dude, slow down a bit. No one can digest these types of profound ideas in warp speed.

A criticism regarding the unknowability of our inner worlds: Yes this is objectively true, others' truths are unknowable to me and my truth is unknowable to others. However I disagree on the futility of self expression, this seems to represent traumatic suppression on his part. This wall of obfuscation is where the purpose of artistic expression begins. This is the reason we write memoirs, study philosophy, paint abstract energies and emotions, write prose and poetry... There is a degree to which this acknowledgement of the solitary nature of subjectivity is beneficial to practicing serenity - however I will never accept that suppression of self and futility of expression is a healthy response to this truism. That said, Im not very familiar with Lacan beyond this video and the occasional reference from Zizek lectures, so maybe Im just confused by Lacan as I ought to be.

so what your saying is: The west insists upon the abstract concept of self. & Lacan represses that concept, as evidenced by his idea of No-Self; and he instead insists upon Poetry/Poetic expression. As evidenced by his insistence that certain terms not be translated into English, and the shared belief with freud that the unconscious houses the true self, which is non-existence AND the true self can only be expressed through poetic(chaotic) means. but we're all still insisting.

Slavoj zizek brought me here

The problem is, that you need to understand 10 years and more, not 10 minutes...

Whole lot o wrapping, big box, quite a performance, like Zizeck ---nothing inside.

too vague, too many ideas presented (sometimes in the same sentence), with just a handful being explored or expanded. The whole general thought direction or orientation keeps meandering from beginning to end, making this potpourri more like bullet points list a psych student is studying the night before finals, thrashing through entire sectors and chapters in one liners to feedback memory and remembering. All this making no sense practically for clinicians or researchers of the psychoanalysis by Lacan, even with the content fleshed out, making it both wrong and misleading

Ok, perhaps a half-cooked question, by a non-professional: How comes that the real can be experienced when meaning is torn apart, wouldn't for example loosing of ones family in a tragic accident, and subsequent break down in despair be an ultimate recognition of the imaginary and symbolic? IF anyone feels compelled to elucidate me, feel free, otherwise, have a good day friends :)

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Lacan in 10 min😂😂😂😂, I don’t think you can understand him in the lifetime

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Considered a bigot and a fraud by major intellectuals since the 80’s was confronted live in an audience with hard facts, he tried to impose his views in freudian psychoanalysis and dismiss without evidence, i see this man as a catalyst to rethink and shake the foundations for mayor changes to come, he just challenged this till the end,he was influential on zizek and other mayor french philosophers

Good try but you can’t squish Lacan into two minutes.

What a bunch of crap🤣