Catherine Millot and the Last Lacan
anecdote · psychoanalysis: Lacan biography ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek dismisses the idea that Lacan’s final years (represented by his 'official mistress' Catherine Millot) contained a 'last wisdom' or point of the Real, arguing instead that these seminars represent a 'gradual disintegration' and a liberalizing of Lacan’s thought.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“the idea was that she was there when lacon was dying... no, i claim... i'm more and more convinced they're gradual disintegration.”
“there is a quote from some India ancient... writing. I think he was flirting there. He simply opportunistically referred to it.”34:42 Slavoj Zizek - Buddhism, happiness and sacrifice day 02 audience questionspub. 2023-04-23 · 49:52
“All this gay rights... undermines the very symbolic coordinates of our social space.”18:39 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 7pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:33:07
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Lady Chatterley's Lover1Michel de Beistegui1Mark Wrathall1Howard Roark1Ferdinand Lassalle1Commune Council1Hagar1Abraham1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Žižek dismisses the idea that Lacan’s final years (represented by his 'official mistress' Catherine Millot) contained a 'last wisdom' or point of the Real, arguing instead that these seminars represent a 'gradual disintegration' and a liberalizing of Lacan’s thought., illustrating gradual disintegration
34:42 Slavoj Zizek - Buddhism, happiness and sacrifice day 02 audience questionspub. 2023-04-23 · 49:52
At the end of his foundational Rapport de Rome, Lacan quotes an ancient Indian text; Žižek interprets this as mere opportunistic fashionable flirtation, like Lacan's earlier pro-structuralist self-proclamation, not genuine engagement with Eastern thought., illustrating psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophy,Lacan's opportunism
18:39 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 7pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:33:07
Legendre argues gay rights undermine symbolic coordinates, leading to 'psychotic totalitarianism,' requiring a re-emergence of symbolic authority., illustrating Lacan as provocateur