Important notes:
Dialogos after Death of God theology: if man were reduced to nothing but the echoing locus of our discourse, what is the point of addressing our discourse to him?
Psychoanalytic dialogos is “one-sided”: analysand (speech) + analyst (mirror)
Metaphors of the subject as a lock (barred) and a (mobius) loop
Feeling that “the other” has “stolen something” from me (suffering letter)
Dialogos of two locks without reflection will find themselves in the dynamics of “Hegelian Murder” (i.e. battle to the death, via dialectics of recognition, between a Master (being recognised) and a Slave (recognising))
The true other = cause of desire/gap/lack
Emphasis on the falling away of the image of the “great man” (non-lacking man)
Dialogos for unknotting or dialogos for perspectival shift on knots? What does dialogos look like/what is possible beyond Master/Slave dynamics?
The fourth Philosophy Portal course, focused on Lacan’s Écrits, starts September 3rd.
Podcast inspired by:
Lacan, J. 2005. Overture to this Collection. In: Écrits. p. 3-5. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Lacan, J. 2005. Seminar on “The Purloined Letter”. In: Écrits. p. 6-48. New York: W.W. Norton Norton & Company.
Lacan and Dialogos