Lacan On Reactionary Psychoanalysis - Study Group on Seminar XVI (Session Nine)

We continue our study group on Seminar XVI, this time with a focus on the session "Thought (as) Censorship" where Lacan addresses an anonymous anti-May 68 manifesto. This is one of the most interesting sessions in all of Seminar XVI. The authors of this manifesto are no longer anonymous, they are two prominent Freudian analysts named Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and Bela Grunberger. The text they wrote is entitled Freud or Reich? Psychoanalysis and Illusion. In this session, I open with an overview of this text, discuss its main claims and points of critique, and we then jump into Lacan's session. Thanks to all of you that participated, this was a great session.

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41:20 "I'm not the only terrorist " so true