Yesterday afternoon I had an idea. (Very) long term readers might recall that I once began to think about the relationship between Lacanian philosophy/psychoanalysis and the use of communication aids. How can one properly constitute yourself as a person if you cannot physically access language / the Symbolic? I was mulling this over again yesterday, and it struck me that it would be awesome if someone made a film in which the South Park characters Timmy and Jimmy were seen discussing such ideas. Both characters are often dismissed as ‘retards’; comic, often derogatory stereotypes of disabled people. Wouldn’t it be cool if they were in fact shown to be intelligent and astute?

I doubted that anyone would have made such a video of course, so it occurred to me to try to make it myself. Thinking about it though, it seemed to me it might be too complicated to perform any sort of conversation between the two characters, so I decided to have a go at making a short film where Timmy alone discusses Lacan. Taking the text from my original blog, last time I began to put together this short video. It’s far from perfect or well polished, but as a bit of fun I’m rather pleased with it. While I hope I don’t get any copyright issues, I find it very amusing to see a character so often dismissed as only capable of shouting his name discussing such complex ideas.