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The Owners of Jouissance. Season 8, Lecture 7.

Lecture theses: The riddle left by Freud is that in his theory libido – as the operator of jouissance and as the central concept of analytical doctrine – was no more than the derelict energy. Eventually, it did not belong to anyone and could not say anything about its own origin. This prompted Lacan to supplement Freud's metapsychology in its economic aspect with a theory of discourses, invoking the historical-formational teaching of Marx. Nevertheless, the central question posed by Lacan was not about the expansion of the means of production and the accumulation of wealth. It was about the robbery of the one who knows and the wastage of jouissance. The primary robbery of this type took place at the time of the historical decay of the Master's discourse. The procedure of this robbery turns out to be very similar to the robbery committed at the moment when the child enters the latent stage of development. It is accompanied by forced parting with the knowledge used to realize its infantile sexuality. The main sign of this new stage is the need to work. Yet, unlike the Master era this work no longer brings the child closer to knowledge. As a compensation for this work the latent subject receives jouissance, which consists in observing the anxiety of the genital subject. The latent nature of the general psychosexual profile of our time is reflected, among other things, in the rejection of Freud's jouissance which is embodied in the creation of psychoanalysis as a free theoretical activity; and in the transformation of analysis into a therapeutical labor duty to heal and to adapt damaged subjects. The bonus jouissance of this duty is found in raising this damage to the status of the exiled Master's lack. Literature: Jacques Lacan XVII Seminar ‘The Other Side of Psychoanalysis", chapter V ‘Lacan's Field’.