Why You Keep Wanting What Won't Satisfy You | Jacques Lacan's Complete Philosophy

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A complete deep analysis of Jacques Lacan's revolutionary ideas about desire, identity, and the unconscious. Discover why satisfaction is impossible, why you repeat painful patterns, why language shapes what you can think, and why your sense of self is a necessary fiction. This covers everything: the mirror stage, the symbolic order, object a, jouissance, sexual difference, clinical applications, major critiques, and why his ideas explain modern life better than anyone. 00:00:00 Intro 00:11:45 The Intellectual Formation and the Radical Break 00:22:45 The Mirror Stage and the Birth of the Ego 00:36:24 The Three Registers: Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real 00:52:16 The Name-of-the-Father and Entry into the Symbolic Order 01:07:41 Desire, Demand, and Need: The Subject's Impossible Quest 01:23:33 The Graph of Desire and How Language Alienates the Subject 01:39:26 Object Small A: The Cause of Desire That Cannot Be Possessed 01:55:43 The Four Discourses: Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst 02:14:49 Sexual Difference and the Formulas of Sexuation 02:32:24 Jouissance: Pleasure Beyond Pleasure 02:49:19 The Late Lacan: Topology, Knots, and the Sinthome 03:03:58 Applications: Literature, Film, Politics, and Clinical Practice 03:19:45 Major Critiques, Limitations, and Where Lacan Fails 03:36:10 Contemporary Scholarly Debates and Lacan's Living Legacy