My Teaching
by Jacques Lacan
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Author: Jacques LacanTranslator: David Macey
Preface: Jacques-Alain Miller
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-05
ISBN: 1844672719
Number of pages: 116
Publisher: Verso
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Book Review: Good for analysing Lacan, not his teachings.
Summary: 2 Stars
Compare this little volume with Freud's Five Lectures On Psychoanalysis. Where Freud shows respect to his audience by both cordially addressing them and honoring the project of introducing them to a reduced version of his innovative thought, Lacan condescends to his audience and refuses to elaborate more than trivial clues as to what his 'teaching' is. Both he and Freud come off as arrogant, but Freud's sense of self-importance lies in what he demonstrates of his work; Lacan's, in the volume of three lectures, My Teaching, is founded in contrast with the "stupidity" he proclaims of others.
After reading de Saussure, Derrida and some Freud, I find Lacan's lectures novel only so far as they present a capricious discourse itself ripe for psychoanalysis. The tension of contradiction arises when Lacan characterizes the history of civilization in a sense as endless repetition and then asserts his unique priority in discovering the linguistic aspect of Freud's theories. Lacan revels in reiterating his unique genius in this way, which in turn presses against a separate assertion, also repeated across the lectures, that in fifteen years of giving seminars, he never has said the same thing.
If Lacan means to teach by demonstration, this volume may offer more--at least to the educated lay reader--than the title suggests. The failure to condescend gracefully, however, reveals a lack of confidence or academic spirit, both marks of true genius, both to be found in Freud.
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