{"id":1648,"date":"2023-03-06T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2023-03-08T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:34:42","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi-2-2-2-2-2-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Lacan&#8217;s &#8216;objet a&#8217; | Todd McGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 23 February 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gm789fa5b\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gm789fa5b gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiXdNBcMCvI?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Lacan in Scotland seminar &#8220;&#8216;How the &#8216;Objet a&#8217; Takes the Object Out of Desire&#8221; took place on Zoom on Thursday 23 February 2023. Dr Todd McGowan discusses French psychoanalyst&#8217;s Jacques Lacan&#8217;s concept of &#8216;objet a&#8217; in relation to desire. It is chaired by Dr Calum Neill (Director of Lacan in Scotland) and is followed by a discussion with the audience. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIDEO TIMESTAMPS: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiXdNBcMCvI&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiXdNBcMCvI&amp;t=86s\">01:26<\/a> &#8211; Presentation <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiXdNBcMCvI&amp;t=2647s\">44:07<\/a> &#8211; Discussion with Calum Neill <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiXdNBcMCvI&amp;t=2978s\">49:38<\/a> &#8211; Q&amp;A with the audience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DESCRIPTION OF THE SEMINAR <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacques Lacan once claimed that the objet a was his one invention. It certainly indicates his originality as a thinker. This talk will trace the development of this concept and investigate how it enables him to think desire in a way that goes beyond both Hegel and Freud, two of the paradigmatic theorists of desire before Lacan. The objet a dissociates desire from satisfaction through obtaining an object and instead links desire\u2019s satisfaction to the obstacle that forms around its object. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TODD MCGOWAN<\/strong> is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Impossible David Lynch (2007), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016), and Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019). He is the coeditor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj \u017di\u017eek and Adrian Johnston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 23 February 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}