Lecture on Lacan's Four Discourse| Shannon Bell

Shannon Bell lectures on Lacan's Four Discourses at York university.

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Texts:
Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
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The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Vol. Book XI) (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
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Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge (Encore Edition) (Vol. Book XX) (Bk. 20)
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Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
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"If what Freud discovered, and rediscovers ever more abruptly, has a meaning, it is that the signifier’s displacement determines the subjects’ acts, destiny, refusals, blindnesses, success, and fate, regardless of their innate gifts and instruction, and regardless of their character or sex; and that everything pertaining to the psychological pre-given follows willy-nilly the signifier’s train, like weapons and baggage."
– Ecrits, 30
"Psychoanalytic experience has rediscovered in man the imperative of the Word as the law that has shaped him in its image. It exploits the poetic function of language to give his desire its symbolic mediation. May this experience finally enable you to understand that the whole reality of its effects lies in the gift of speech; for it is through this gift that all reality has come to man and through its ongoing action that he sustains reality."
– Ecrits, 322
“The formations of the unconscious… Have nothing in common if one grounds onself in psychological objectivity, even if the latter is derived by extension from the schemas of psychopathology,… this chaos merely reflects psychology’s central error. This error consists in taking the very phenomenon of consciousness to be unitary, speaking of the same consciousness – believed to be a synthetic faculty – in the illuminated area of a sensory field, in the attention that transforms it, in the dialectic of judgment, and in ordinary day-dreaming. This error is based on the undue transfer to these phenomena of the value of a thought experiment that uses them as examples. The Cartesian cogito is the major, and perhaps terminal, feat of this experiment in that it attains knowledge certainty [sic]. But it merely indicates all the more clearly just how privileged the moment upon which it is based is, and how fraudulent it is to extend its privilege to phenomena endowed with consciousness, in order to grant them a status. For science, the cogito marks, on the contrary, the break with every assurance conditioned by intuition”
_ Ecrits, 831
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