What It Means to Understand Seminars I and II

Episode notes

In this concluding episode, William Gomes clarifies what it means to understand Lacan’s Seminar I and Seminar II.

The episode synthesises the series by identifying the key displacements Lacan introduces, including the critique of ego psychology, the ethics of technique, the role of speech, and the structural conception of the subject. It explains why these seminars are foundational for all of Lacan’s later work.