I saw some great sub-titles to a video about Nietzsche once. His father was 'the perfect picture of a concrete oxen' ('country parson')... I can't remember all of them but I do have a partial transcript - 'cause that's how good they were...
Mr. Obirek, As with most French philosophers of the mid-to-late 20'th century, I've hitherto found Jacques Lacan's thought to be pretty dauntingly impenetrable & inscrutable. As such, I really have to praise your skill in translating & distilling his thought into a medium of such clarity & intelligibility! Thank you so much for your amazing work, sir! This phenomenally helpful!
Thank you for an excellent Lacanian video. This is more than good enough. We can adjust the speed from the settings etc. Please just produce more of Lacan instead of perfecting the quality of the video. Content is more important than other elements for some.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Stefanie! And thank you for watching! I know it isn't on the next big concept of psychoanalysis, but I did make a video on the Lacanian (and Sartrean) gaze, which you can see on my channel, too. The gaze wasn't one of the four, but Lacan still spends significant time on it in Seminar XI.
This was a really nice video. I've always been interested in Lacan since i heard him being mentioned by Zizek, but he's a difficult one to read for the average person. I tried and it was really hard to understand. These video really help make him clearer. I really appreciate your work here.
I’ll be adding Lacan to my reading list to round out my understanding of symbols- thanks for the video. The Lacanian concept of signifie/signifier reminds me of Ogden and Richards conceptual triangle in their “The Meaning of Meaning” (A book referenced in many I’ve read on similar topics, but have not myself read). Let’s see if I can format this on a TH-cam comment: /...\ the lower-right side of the triangle has the “object itself, or referent” linking to to top of of the triangle which is the “thought, abstraction, or reference” of the object itself, then linked to the lower-left side of the triangle where the “word, phrase, or symbol is kept; between the “symbol” and “referent” is a dotted line, indicating the lack of direct link between the two. What is meant by this, can be examined if you look at how someone reacts to the word “communism” or “capitalism” or “rape” or “torture” and any symbols associated with them. Those symbols inspire thoughts, feelings, and other mental content specific to the individual. You can often find people reacting to those words as if they were the phenomena themselves. This is a fundamental confusion of two distinct classes, and explains why so many conversations about important but controversial issues go /nowhere/. These concepts are dealt with in depth by the field of “general semantics.” It’s a very interesting field founded by Alfred Korzybski.
Thanks for the video. I have been reading Lacan. He is difficult but rewarding when you get the gist of the argument he is making. What I find interesting is that there is a certain symbiosis in Lacanian literature. Each concept is dependent on another concept.
The strange thing about the whole 'dreams have a syntax, and the unconscious is structured like a language' argument is that it's clearly correct (or at least partially so), but psychologists themselves mostly ignore their own 'motto'. So you had early experts compiling 'dream dictionaries', where largely hilarious meanings are attributed to inanimate objects - which would be an attempt to study the vocabulary and *not* the syntax. (The syntax is more like a Venn diagram, and less like an algebraic equation, which is where it differs from conscious thought). Also, many dreams are self-explanatory, and those tend to be ignored as well. It 'has to be' something other than you think it is, because the psychologists have to know something mysterious - or they'd just be (gasp) people. That's basically why psychology has made roughly zero progress in over a hundred years. (A few psychologists did have some valid insights, and were pretty much 'excommunicated' for revealing things which would have been more useful than profitable)...
it's a great vid! i would just say that incorporating the real in the symbolic isn't synonymous with psychoanalytic work for lacan, that's more middle period lacan. by s17 when he reorients to the real i think it's gets messier
Thank you! And absolutely, I agree with you! I focus on Seminar XI, which follows the excommunication of Lacan. I hoped to emphasise that I wasn't going through his work in its entirety, but that I had a smaller scope.
Very nice video, thanks! I suspect your channel will grow a LOT! Especially if you keep on improving on two levels: Like someone else said, going a bit slower will do wonders for anyone who's interested but can't quite keep up since this shit is complicated. Also, getting a better mic and improving your sound quality will do a lot. Editing, design (I adore your graphics skills) and the essay itself are already wonderful. Keep it up! I'd love to see this channel become big. :-)
Thank you so much for the nice words, Fimbultyr! I will do my best to improve on the technical levels, too! Thanks for helping me out, I really appreciate it :)!
Since a long time, Lacanian psychoanalysis has stayed confusing for me. Despite seeing plenty of videos, my predicament remains the same, however by this video, I have found the right signifier, I guess...Thank you...
@Simon Øbirek as I stated on a previous video, I don't know if you've stopped making videos, but there is a pretty increased demand on TH-cam for critical theory, continental philosophy, etc and you would fit into it very well should you want to grace us with even more of your fantastic distillations of not only the more difficult thinkers, but even those who communicate their ideas very well, such as the late, great Fisher. I had been wanting to introduce my brother to Mark and his ideas for a while now, and although there are some great videos on capitalist Realism, your video was the only one I felt would get across exactly what he needed to hear, without making him full on depressed. I bid you, sir, come back to this dreadful space called TH-cam.
Great explanation, however I think the tempo in the video is a tad too fast. This is complicated stuff, and it feels like you're rushing it, so to fully grasp it I actually need to pause and go back over and over.
@@SimonObirek Hi, the music is still very distracting at the beginning - especially as it has words in it! Would be easier to concentrate on the concepts you're explaining without it, or with instrumental music. But apart from that it's GREAT and the visuals really help with understanding the concepts. Thanks!
You don't trust me that I can make it trough 10 min video without background music, montage, animation and special effects? I have never been more offended by the video! Content is really good though.
recently Learned of lacann Enticing stuff when it comes to the unconcious. like why we do the fucked shit we do and what not i look forward to the rest of the series
You do the fucked up shit you do because the neurochemical soup your endocrine system produces when you engage in said fucked up shit makes you feel good or secure. That’s it. Avoid lacan, avoid all psychoanalysis, it’s about as useful a predictor of behavior as a cointoss.
Fascinating stuff, but very squishy and highly conjectural. But then again any kind of psychology beside cognitive neuropsychology is basically just paying someone you believe is more informed than you to give you their opinion about your inner mental state, or the collective inner state of a group. Which is why nearly every major study in psychology outside cognitive neuropsychology gets absolutely obliterated by the question of reproducibility.
Arguably, nothing is beyond language. It's how we fundamentally order the world. A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh... This idea of recuperating the supposedly trans-linguistic into language instead of letting it remain in the great beyond, assuming such a place exists, feels like a very reactionary approach to me.
Love your content! However, you could do simple things to improve the clarity of audio. If you are using premiere see what channel has better audio and use either Fill Left with Right, or Fill Right with Left. And as of late you can use Essential Sound to quickly enhance dialog by using some of the presets there.
Great series-not enough on TH-cam about Lacan.
wcropp1 Thank you! And I agree; I think it's because he can be difficult to undertake. I hope I can inspire others to read his seminars and écrits!
@@SimonObirek Check out my new TH-cam Channel in my Lacan Workshop!
Autogenerated subtitles called Jaques Lacan “Chaka Khan” lol
Yeah, i laughed so hard, also near the end Lacan becomes "the Kong"
Jacques Lacan let me rock you,
Let me rock you Jacques Lacan..
I saw some great sub-titles to a video about Nietzsche once. His father was 'the perfect picture of a concrete oxen' ('country parson')... I can't remember all of them but I do have a partial transcript - 'cause that's how good they were...
Mr. Obirek, As with most French philosophers of the mid-to-late 20'th century, I've hitherto found Jacques Lacan's thought to be pretty dauntingly impenetrable & inscrutable.
As such, I really have to praise your skill in translating & distilling his thought into a medium of such clarity & intelligibility! Thank you so much for your amazing work, sir! This phenomenally helpful!
Just want to say thank you very much for your well-explained, clear and detailed videos on Lacan.
this is really help me for my presentation assignment:)
nice video! but the music got a bit distracting
Woow. Thank you for clear explanation of Lacan
I need the cover picture of this video
Thank you for an excellent Lacanian video. This is more than good enough. We can adjust the speed from the settings etc. Please just produce more of Lacan instead of perfecting the quality of the video. Content is more important than other elements for some.
Also, I vote that you would make fantastic Baudrillard content.
Also Also, ie PPS - we need that repetition video.
This was an incredibly accessible summary. Thank you! I’d be very happy to see the announced second video of this series :)
Thank you so much for your kind words, Stefanie! And thank you for watching! I know it isn't on the next big concept of psychoanalysis, but I did make a video on the Lacanian (and Sartrean) gaze, which you can see on my channel, too. The gaze wasn't one of the four, but Lacan still spends significant time on it in Seminar XI.
Good video! I think it's super important that you clarify that JL is talking about the clinic. Most of the philosophers tend to forget this.
This was a really nice video. I've always been interested in Lacan since i heard him being mentioned by Zizek, but he's a difficult one to read for the average person. I tried and it was really hard to understand. These video really help make him clearer. I really appreciate your work here.
I’ll be adding Lacan to my reading list to round out my understanding of symbols- thanks for the video.
The Lacanian concept of signifie/signifier reminds me of Ogden and Richards conceptual triangle in their “The Meaning of Meaning” (A book referenced in many I’ve read on similar topics, but have not myself read). Let’s see if I can format this on a TH-cam comment: /...\ the lower-right side of the triangle has the “object itself, or referent” linking to to top of of the triangle which is the “thought, abstraction, or reference” of the object itself, then linked to the lower-left side of the triangle where the “word, phrase, or symbol is kept; between the “symbol” and “referent” is a dotted line, indicating the lack of direct link between the two. What is meant by this, can be examined if you look at how someone reacts to the word “communism” or “capitalism” or “rape” or “torture” and any symbols associated with them. Those symbols inspire thoughts, feelings, and other mental content specific to the individual. You can often find people reacting to those words as if they were the phenomena themselves. This is a fundamental confusion of two distinct classes, and explains why so many conversations about important but controversial issues go /nowhere/.
These concepts are dealt with in depth by the field of “general semantics.” It’s a very interesting field founded by Alfred Korzybski.
You make amazing content man. I would love to see a video on Baudrillaed
Thank you for this. I hope the repetition video and more are coming soon. Excellent
Thank you, Selma! Next one up will be on the gaze, it's in production now!
Did the rest of the videos on the four concepts ever come out?? This video was excellent!
This video is really helpful for me! Your explanation of metaphor and metonymy are so clear that I can realize them, easily. Thank you!!
Great video, well explained and I loved your edition.
came upon your channel on twitter. glad I did. my first acquaintance with JL. really interesting topic, really nice explanation
Thanks for the video. I have been reading Lacan. He is difficult but rewarding when you get the gist of the argument he is making. What I find interesting is that there is a certain symbiosis in Lacanian literature. Each concept is dependent on another concept.
OM-Lacan, this is the first time I feel understanding Lacan is within reach.
Great talk. Where is your next link to Lacan's Repetition?
Thank you a lot for this video! Really clearly put. I feel like I learned a lot.
The strange thing about the whole 'dreams have a syntax, and the unconscious is structured like a language' argument is that it's clearly correct (or at least partially so), but psychologists themselves mostly ignore their own 'motto'. So you had early experts compiling 'dream dictionaries', where largely hilarious meanings are attributed to inanimate objects - which would be an attempt to study the vocabulary and *not* the syntax. (The syntax is more like a Venn diagram, and less like an algebraic equation, which is where it differs from conscious thought).
Also, many dreams are self-explanatory, and those tend to be ignored as well. It 'has to be' something other than you think it is, because the psychologists have to know something mysterious - or they'd just be (gasp) people. That's basically why psychology has made roughly zero progress in over a hundred years. (A few psychologists did have some valid insights, and were pretty much 'excommunicated' for revealing things which would have been more useful than profitable)...
looking forward to next video
Thank you so much for watching, Fahad! Next video is in production; I am editing it now!
thats great!
Subbed, great channel
Thank you, comrade!
Great video! Was the second part of the series been released?
Excellent!!! Keep the great work!
Well explained and also really appealing visual presentation! Keep it up ;)
Marc S Damn, these are nice words! Thank you so much, Marc, I really appreciate your comment!
it's a great vid! i would just say that incorporating the real in the symbolic isn't synonymous with psychoanalytic work for lacan, that's more middle period lacan. by s17 when he reorients to the real i think it's gets messier
Thank you! And absolutely, I agree with you! I focus on Seminar XI, which follows the excommunication of Lacan. I hoped to emphasise that I wasn't going through his work in its entirety, but that I had a smaller scope.
Very nice video, thanks! I suspect your channel will grow a LOT!
Especially if you keep on improving on two levels: Like someone else said, going a bit slower will do wonders for anyone who's interested but can't quite keep up since this shit is complicated. Also, getting a better mic and improving your sound quality will do a lot. Editing, design (I adore your graphics skills) and the essay itself are already wonderful. Keep it up! I'd love to see this channel become big. :-)
Thank you so much for the nice words, Fimbultyr! I will do my best to improve on the technical levels, too! Thanks for helping me out, I really appreciate it :)!
great channel and content! very happy to discover your work ✨
Nice topic mate You'd be a great philosophy teacher :)
Mete Yavuz Thank you for your kind words!
Subbed can't wait for round 2
Great video 🙃
this video is great ! really explaining
Since a long time, Lacanian psychoanalysis has stayed confusing for me. Despite seeing plenty of videos, my predicament remains the same, however by this video, I have found the right signifier, I guess...Thank you...
really interesting video - music is a little loud though 😅
interesting subtle video effects.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I appreciate your work.
Thank you, Dallas! More are on the way, stay tuned!
Thank you very much for this explanation, it helps me so much!
Very interesting.
bookshelf tour?
Great, not that many youtubers get Lacan
Amazing video.
Will you continue this series?
cool vid!
@Simon Øbirek as I stated on a previous video, I don't know if you've stopped making videos, but there is a pretty increased demand on TH-cam for critical theory, continental philosophy, etc and you would fit into it very well should you want to grace us with even more of your fantastic distillations of not only the more difficult thinkers, but even those who communicate their ideas very well, such as the late, great Fisher. I had been wanting to introduce my brother to Mark and his ideas for a while now, and although there are some great videos on capitalist Realism, your video was the only one I felt would get across exactly what he needed to hear, without making him full on depressed. I bid you, sir, come back to this dreadful space called TH-cam.
1:26 *NICE*
Great explanation, however I think the tempo in the video is a tad too fast. This is complicated stuff, and it feels like you're rushing it, so to fully grasp it I actually need to pause and go back over and over.
Reduce speed .75x
I don't know why vids like this seem to think that this MTV music is necessary. It dumbs down the content.
Nice to see the upload but the music is far too loud in my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback, will look into it!
@@SimonObirek Hi, the music is still very distracting at the beginning - especially as it has words in it! Would be easier to concentrate on the concepts you're explaining without it, or with instrumental music. But apart from that it's GREAT and the visuals really help with understanding the concepts. Thanks!
just love it
Thanks sir very much
You don't trust me that I can make it trough 10 min video without background music, montage, animation and special effects? I have never been more offended by the video!
Content is really good though.
recently Learned of lacann Enticing stuff when it comes to the unconcious. like why we do the fucked shit we do and what not i look forward to the rest of the series
You do the fucked up shit you do because the neurochemical soup your endocrine system produces when you engage in said fucked up shit makes you feel good or secure. That’s it. Avoid lacan, avoid all psychoanalysis, it’s about as useful a predictor of behavior as a cointoss.
where is the next video about repetition? I couldn't find it on you channel
What is the cover picture of this video
Wow, nice use of editing and music to enhance your essay!
Thank you, Elwyn! Got more like that in the works!
In what ways do Lacan and Derrida resemble each other with regard to their views of language?
Fascinating stuff, but very squishy and highly conjectural. But then again any kind of psychology beside cognitive neuropsychology is basically just paying someone you believe is more informed than you to give you their opinion about your inner mental state, or the collective inner state of a group. Which is why nearly every major study in psychology outside cognitive neuropsychology gets absolutely obliterated by the question of reproducibility.
Do a video on why narcissists dislike Lacan!
namaste
Simon obirek . can you kindly speak a bit slowly please
that's not what condensation means for Freud.
Arguably, nothing is beyond language. It's how we fundamentally order the world. A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh... This idea of recuperating the supposedly trans-linguistic into language instead of letting it remain in the great beyond, assuming such a place exists, feels like a very reactionary approach to me.
what and why is there music in the bg?
Ruined
Réel not outside symbolic ordre it's the holes in symbolic,
Music!!!!!!!
I heard Chaka Khan the whole time lol
What is the scientific, empirical evidence that proves the correctness of Lacan's theoretical assumptions?
remove the loud irritating background music please or at least lower its volume.
Man, you are missed
y my brain b dreaming about some serious things taking place in reality, i just wanna swim with the mermaids!
Tyché!
Ditch the music! Stopped watching because of it. Pity.
Same
maybe u batter cut that annoying background music :/
seriously, drop that annoying background music
quit the music mate completely unnecessary and stupid inclusion as detracts from content
Talk good - music good. Talk AND music - not good. Not good at all.
Keep your hands still for God’s sake man.
this music ruined it for me literally got one min in screamed at my computer and stopped the video. shame
Love your content! However, you could do simple things to improve the clarity of audio. If you are using premiere see what channel has better audio and use either Fill Left with Right, or Fill Right with Left. And as of late you can use Essential Sound to quickly enhance dialog by using some of the presets there.
you should keep making videos my friend