Flax Nectar: Jacques Lacan parle, "What Does Lacan Say About… Desire?", Psychiatry at WUaS, Lacan video from 1972 with the French hippie in front of a large audience, Wonder what Lacan would do too with the idea of eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology - In the film he talks about transference as love, but seems to be a little limited by the discourse of psychiatry with which he is coming into conversation

Here are two fascinating videos about Lacan and an article on his thinking about "desire," all quite interesting, French and intelligent ... How to think critically about this further (and even vis-a-vis my blog - I engage a concept of freedom, where he doesn't at the end of the longer film, for one)? -

Jacques Lacan in 1 minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlirZQLAAg

Jacques Lacan parle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31iQQTPY-kA

What Does Lacan Say About… Desire?
http://www.lacanonline.com/index/2010/05/what-does-lacan-say-about-desire/

... smoking a cigarette ... when it flushes blood cells in people's faces ... makes them a little less attractive than otherwise in my experience, and there's the smell of the smoke too ....

Time to read a law case for deliberation in a MIT UnHangout group video conference in the JuryX / HarvardX / edX course I'm taking, where Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson is the Professor.

Laura M, at AFSC SF, could possibly come on the WUaS Board which would be great.

I enjoy meditation every morning ... hoping you had a good day.

Friendly regards,

Scott

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Re this blog and these Lacan resources,

I liked his interaction in the above hour-long film with video from 1972 with the French hippie in front of a large audience, bringing a therapeutic conversation rich with symbols into a lecture, and the mentioning mention revolution - which gets at the early 1970s in an interesting way.

I wonder how Lacan with his very cool shirt would have looked at Harbin Hot Springs, and how he engaged the idea of Bonobo chimpanzees in his teachings, his practice and his thinking vis-a-vis questions of desire.

The longer film above is also a good introduction, in French with good subtitle translations, to key terms and ideas in Lacan's thinking.

I also felt better after seeing it ...

I wonder what Lacan would do too with the idea of eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology. In the film he talks about transference as love, but seems to be a little limited by the discourse of psychiatry with which he is coming into conversation.

I also appreciated aspects of French culture and questions of universal applicability of psychiatric ideas.

At the very end of the film, it touches on what Lacan thought about writing and film - pre-Internet, with implications for the web. 

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