Seminar 7 by Why Theory published on 2024-03-30T02:03:19Z Ryan and Todd analyze the complexity of Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. They discuss the various notions that appear there--from das Ding to sublimation to death drive to the ethics of desire. Genre Learning Comment by Ryley Alger-hempstead @ryleyah: attempt to eliminate jouissance (and death drive) precisely because jouissance is inherently political/social whereas pleasure is individual and self-withdrawn 2024-04-24T19:44:26Z Comment by Lewis Why is success more terrifying than failure ( in terms of evidence for that being the case and why, if it is, it should be the case?) 2024-04-23T09:53:18Z Comment by Christian Lesniak Sounds kind of like Beethoven's trajectory, where at the beginning of his career, he's finding his voice while studying under Haydn (and still very much in that classical mode), and then his middle period has this directness of personal, dramatic expression (5th symphony, violin concerto, middle quartets), and then his late period is Beethoven, deaf and in outer space, with stuff like the Hammerklavier sonata, 9th Symphony and late quartets. 2024-04-01T21:44:07Z