Recently I presented a powerpoint on Lacan and Levinas for a course on Trauma. While I had heard the names before, prior to ~2 weeks ago I had never looked into the works of either Lacan or Levinas. Needless to say, then, that this was quite the task to try and compile these two notoriously dense thinkers with an exceptionally difficult "Subject" (pun intended).
Typically I like to accompany publicly shared presentations with their counterpart essays to fill in details. However, I'm not certain (yet) where my research in this (trauma) course will take me so I'll go ahead and post the presentation; which you can view here.
Acknowledging my preferences and biases, I'm certainly not a well-polished (Lacanian) analyst, and do like [proverbially] slinging the ontological mud when it comes to philosophical matters. For all the density and "headiness" of a Lacanian-Levenasian take on trauma, I do see some pertinent principles. For example, the Lacanian notions of Mirror State/Experience; but rather applied across a life span rather than explicitly undertaken in infancy. Also, the Levinasian principle that The Subject never "is", it is never "being", rather, it is constantly "becoming." Those are probably the two biggest sticking points for me throughout this project and that I find most relevant to trauma work.
