#+title: We Never Learned Anything About Lacan | Regrettable Century Podcast

- tags :: [[file:../20200707090558-psychoanalysis.org][psychoanalysis]] [[file:../20200707090614-jacques_lacan.org][Jacques Lacan]]
- [[https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/4370345-we-never-learned-anything-about-lacan-with-neil-from-the-from-78-podcast][source]]
 
- Unlike the analysts who came after [[file:../20200707090939-sigmund_freud.org][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 [[file:../20200707091710-jouissance.org][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)