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Here's a rare treat - a French television show made in 1973 with Jacques Lacan, (see my last post), in 1973. Lacan's son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller, is asking Lacan questions on psychoanalysis. It seems that Lacan's replies were delivered in a style that the master thinker thought appropriate for a televisual performance. Surely, his celebrated seminars, delivered before large audiences of the leading French and continental intellectuals of the period, cannot have looked like this.

Yes, it's ludicrous. British viewers familiar with the now almost forgotten wartime films of Will Hay, or with the lectures of the sublime Professor Stanley Unwin, will be struck with the similarity of Lacan's delivery.

This gem was discovered on the superb Ubuweb, a wonderful resource for film, video, music and poetry. It was on Ubuweb I found a full and subtitled version of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, along with all of his other films.

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