Lacan on fantasy (1 of 9) : A thought experiment

We move to an Other scene to discuss fantasy, and pose a thought experiment. You and your dog Jeffrey visit an exhibition entitled 'Sex', and find three types of artifact: 1) those that do absolutely nothing for you, 2) those that you find enticing, alluring, and, 3) those that are too much, potentially traumatic. Fantasy, approached from a Lacanian perspective, involves the management - or arrangement - of jouissance. But why are so many sexual fantasies so stereotypical in nature?

[@RowsdowerSavesUs]

I'm curious about the unconscious meaning of the linguistic slip in which the dog named Jerome becomes Jeffrey for the remainder of the video. You might want to discuss that with your analyst, Derek!

[@MrLordrun]

He's is the most energetic professor I've seen in my life.

[@vygotsky17]

What I've learned from this video ..... "People have been having naughty bad sex for a long time!" 🤣

[@raedminur3980]

Very very long time since i seen some original ideas like this👍

[@yomamacenter]

I certainly don't want to be that person but.. this turned into criminology SO FAST. I would Imagine that this video would make Bataille very happy.

[@peace_cat76]

I'm not extremely well-acquainted with the concept but your excellent and very effective fantasy presentation of strolling the halls of an infinite Barbican Centre reminded me of what I'd heard about of the Buddhist *bardo* state, or "liminal state between death and rebirth." (-Wiki)
If memory serves, just as how you suggest here that we pick for ourselves in fantasy which among the grand tableaux suits us, so too with the individual's 49 days in this bardo state. And, when we fall for a scene, which maybe of two lovers we are most enamoured with, we our born *from* them.
Not quite sure what this comparison signifies yet, or if I got it right, but it seems to be cousin to the ego, inasmuch as the ego softens our plight by insulating us, in this case with a story about how we have a hand in our fate? (=we are powerful?)

[@derekhookonlacan]

Thanks, for your comment. It's a lovely cultural reference point.

[@rosendoiscool]

Like Derrida!

[@octopusexperiment1931]

He's so excited to be in his garden. me too