<![CDATA[Parlêtre Press: Podcast]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/s/parletre-podcasthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IfVU!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4396cfc5-8ca8-4924-98f6-a393c28adada_1280x1280.pngParlêtre Press: Podcasthttps://www.parletrepress.com/s/parletre-podcastSubstackSat, 11 Apr 2026 15:34:13 GMT<![CDATA[Episode 5: Logical Time]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-5-logical-timehttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-5-logical-timeFri, 10 Apr 2026 14:03:09 GMTThis episode explores Lacan’s early essay, “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty”, originally published in 1945 for the journal Les Cahiers d’Arr. In “Logical Time”, Lacan presents “a new sophism”—a logical problem he describes as the “prisoner’s dilemma”. As he says:

I will now place myself under the auspices of he who sometimes dons the philosopher’s garb, who—ambiguous—is more often to be sought in the comedian’s banter, but who is always encountered in the politician’s secretive action: the good logician, odious to the world.1

Lacan the logician will take us into the movement of time as a suspended motion, modulated in “the instant of the glance”, “the time for comprehending”, and “the moment of concluding”. With this, Lacan places the egoic subject within a temporal tension that signals anxiety:

The “I,” subject of the conclusive assertion, is isolated from the other—that is, from the relation of reciprocity—by a logical beat. The movement of the logical genesis of the “I” through a decanting of its own logical time largely parallels its psychological birth. Just as, let us recall, the psychological “I” emerges from an indeterminate specular transitivism, assisted by an awakened jealous tendency, the “I” in question here defines itself through a subjectification of competition with the other, in the function of logical time. As such, it seems to me to provide the essential logical form (rather than the so-called existential form) of the psychological “I”.2

Lacan is thus elaborating the temporal logic of the mirror stage—where the infant, standing before its own speculation, experiences an anticipatory movement of its body that remains suspended in the very instant of the glance.

Join us as we unfold Lacan’s riddling logic with our special guest, Nick Castellucci, co-host of the Vanishing Mediators channel.

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00:00 - 07:53 Lacan the Logician
07:54 - 24:01 Logic and Language in Western Philosophy
24:02 - 39:04 Kantian Ethics and Self-Authorization
39:05 - 50:55 Lacan's Sophism: Explaining the Prisoner's Dilemma
50:56 - 01:02:06 Signifying Motion and Phenomenological Time
01:02:07 - 1:20:00 Influencer Culture and the Anxiety of Verification
01:20:01 - 1:45:19 Logical Time in Analysis

1

Jacques Lacan, Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, trans. Bruce Fink (W.W. Norton and Company, 2006), 163.

2

Lacan, Écrits, 170.

]]><![CDATA[Episode 4: Ordinary Psychosis in the Clinic]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-4-ordinary-psychosis-in-thehttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-4-ordinary-psychosis-in-theThu, 12 Mar 2026 14:03:15 GMTIn this episode, we discuss Jacques-Alain Miller’s notion of “ordinary psychosis”, the nature of the Lacanian clinic, and the future of psychoanalysis. We’re joined by special guest, Michael McAndrew, who shares his experiences and perspectives as a practicing psychoanalyst.

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00:00 - 06:54 What is Ordinary Psychosis?

06:55 - 10:04 Latent Psychosis and Hidden Illness

10:05 - 13:54 Institutional Psychiatry

13:55 - 20:04 The Place of Psychosis

20:05 - 28:59 Psychosis and Neurosis

29:00 - 34:19 Symbolic Modes of Treatment

34:20 - 40:09 Psychedelics and Psychosis

40:10 - 45:04 Psychosis and Capitalism

45:05 - 50:59 Institutional Psychoanalysis

51:00 - 57:39 Psychoanalysis and Style

57:40 - 1:02:14 The Humanity of Analysis

1:02:15 - 1:08:09 The Lacanian School

1:08:10 - 1:14:39 Clinical Study Days and Misunderstanding Sexuality

1:14:40 - 1:21:14 Resisting Standardization

1:21:15 - 1:28:09 Virtual Analysis and the Presence of the Analyst

1:28:10 - 1:35:19 On-Demand Analysis and the Desire of the Analyst

1:35:20 - 1:41:59 Psychoanalysis as a Way of Life

1:42:00 - 1:47:36 Upcoming Events and Closing Reflections

About Michael McAndrew

Michael McAndrew is a poet and Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Denver, CO. He is a member of the Lacanian Compass.

]]><![CDATA[Episode 3: The Gift of Speech]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-3-the-gift-of-speechhttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-3-the-gift-of-speechFri, 20 Feb 2026 01:48:45 GMTThis is the concluding episode in our series on Lacan's essay, "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis", where we explore the apex of Lacan's argument in section III, "The Resonances of Interpretation and the Time of the Subject in Psychoanalytic Technique".

Listeners who are intrigued by Lacan’s references to Indian linguistics in this section are referred to my recent essay, “A Hamlet on the Ganges”, which provides an extensive commentary on this thread in Lacan’s teaching and its implications for psychoanalysis.

00:00 - 05:46 The Three Moments in Freud and Lacan
05:47 - 25:27 Time and Punctuation in Analytic Technique
25:28 - 36:56 The Master-Slave Dialectic
36:57 - 46:48 Somatic Therapies and the Speaking Body
46:49 - 1:02:04 Indian Linguistics and Semantic Resonances
1:02:05 - 1:08:23 Recollection and Repetition
1:08:24 - 1:31:19 A Hamlet on the Ganges
1:31:20 - 1:37:57 Hysteria and Obsessionality
1:37:58 - 1:46:28 The Subject's Ego and His Discourse's I
1:46:29 - 1:51:12 Lacan's Short Session
1:51:13 - 2:00:00 What the Thunder Said

]]><![CDATA[Episode 2: Symbol and Language]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-2-symbol-and-languagehttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/episode-2-symbol-and-languageFri, 06 Feb 2026 00:30:04 GMTIn this episode of Parlêtre, we continue our exploration of Lacan’s essay, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” with a discussion of section II which Lacan titles, “Symbol and Language as Structure and Limit of the Psychoanalytic Field”.

00:00 - 08:20 Language and Psychoanalysis
08:21 - 16:25 The Interpretation of Dreams
16:26 - 22:06 The Analyst as Scribe
22:07 - 40:03 The Signifying Field of Language
40:04 - 53:28 The Symbolic Order and the Law
53:29 - 58:39 The Structure of Symptoms
58:40 - 1:05:43 The Mark of Repression
1:05:44 - 1:12:14 Neurotic Regression in Jung
1:12:15 - 1:15:50 Jungian Image vs. Symbolic Law
1:15:51 - 1:22:03 Rapport vs. Transference in Medicine & Psychoanalysis
1:22:04 - 1:27:05 Truth, Knowledge, and Gnosis
1:27:06 - 1:30:50 Repetition and Desire
1:31:51 - 1:36:00 Synchrony and Diachrony
1:36:01 - 1:45:36 The Name of the Father
1:45:37 - 1:46:57 The Oedipal Constitution in Tibetan Medicine
1:48:58 - 1:49:07 Symbolic Possession
1:49-08 - 1:50:55 Poetics and Rhetoric
1:50:56 - 1:57:19 The Symbolic Father and the Function of the Name

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 1: Empty Speech and Full Speech]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/empty-speech-and-full-speech-a8ahttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/empty-speech-and-full-speech-a8aThu, 22 Jan 2026 23:06:00 GMTWe are inaugurating Parlêtre Podcast with a series of episodes on Lacan’s formidable essay, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis”.

In this episode, we discuss the preface, introduction, and first section of the essay, where Lacan begins to distinguish between "empty speech" and "full speech" in psychoanalysis.

Audio episodes are also available on Spotify. Video episodes are available our YouTube channel (embedded below).

00:00 - 2:12 Introduction to Function and Field
2:13 - 5:33 Lacan's Ambition and the Return to Freud
5:34 - 9:28 The Saussurean Paradigm and Language Theory
9:29 - 15:14 Lacan's Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
15:15 - 22:54 The Three Problems in Psychoanalysis
22:55 - 32:31 The Oracular Vernacular of Psychoanalysis
32:32 - 33:37 Symbolic Transference and Countertransference
33:38 - 37:31 Empty Speech vs. Full Speech
37:32 - 50:31 The Copernican Revolution of Psychoanalysis
50:32 - 52:47 The Role of the Analyst as Symbolic Intermediary
52:48 - 1:00:37 The Sacramental Nature of Psychoanalysis
1:00:38 - 1:23:16 The Function of Speech in Psychoanalysis
1:23:17 - 1:24:22 The Three Poisons and Passions of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
1:24:23 - 1:36:20 Speech, Desire, and History
1:36:21 - 1:50:04 Logical Time
1:50:05 - 1:52:03 Repetition and the Death Drive
1:52:04 - 2:00:00 Love, Grace, and the Redemption of Speech

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]]><![CDATA[Introducing Parlêtre Podcast]]>https://www.parletrepress.com/p/parletre-podcasthttps://www.parletrepress.com/p/parletre-podcastWed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:00 GMTDear readers,

I’m thrilled to introduce my podcast project, Parlêtre, co-hosted with my friend and colleague, Andrew Flores.

Parlêtre is a long-form podcast dedicated to the work of Jacques Lacan—where we explore the theoretical and clinical intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis through free-associative conversation. Parlêtre is a neologism coined by Lacan from the French words parler (to speak) and être (to be). Parlêtre thus conveys the meaning of “speaking beings”, signifying the human field of the unconscious and its expression in the function of speech.

Parlêtre podcast exists as an invocation and enactment of analytic discourse, where we speak from the locus of our own desire and engagement with Lacan’s oeuvre. Parlêtre is an invitation to hear Lacan through the conversation of speaking beings—whether you are a philosopher, student, clinician, or simply curious about what psychoanalysis has to offer to the cipher of our mortal destiny.

We are inaugurating Parlêtre with a series of episodes exploring Lacan’s landmark essay, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis”. (This is the essay I commented upon in my recent publication, “A Hamlet on the Ganges”). Our first episode, “Empty Speech and Full Speech”, examines the preface, introduction, and first section of Lacan’s essay.

We hope you enjoy listening to or watching our first episode!

Stay tuned for our next episode by subscribing to our Patreon, or following us on Spotify, YouTube, or Instagram:

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