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Episode 2: Symbol and Language
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Episode 2: Symbol and Language

Series on "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis"

In 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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