📚 node [[20200707090530 we_never_learned_anything_about_lacan_regrettable_century_podcast]]
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  • Unlike the analysts who came after Sigmund Freud Lacan felt that the process of becoming an analyst was one that could be done without the need of an institution

  • Neil says that in his experience leftists tend to get a sense of purpose out of feeling marginalized, that being in power would be something they wouldn't want or wouldn't know what to do with, as being marginalized gives them a sense of purpose

  • Freud's work Beyond the Pleasure Principle talks about how people want more than just hedonistic pleasure in their lives

  • Leftists are meant to be long-suffering, like religious people

  • Leftists tend to hate their ostensible allies more than their enemies

    • Leftists can hate the right because the right is very upfront with them. On the left, there's things like gatekeeping and processes of exclusion that are more subtle

  • use of the term jouissance

  • Lacan gets grouped in with a lot of political stuff

  • Psychoanalysis was subsumed into the medical industry, whereas in Latin America its tied up in politics

  • Lacan was more interested in letting people do what they want to do (unleash and understand their own desire as opposed to being beholden to their own drive)

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