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Lacan
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What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian 'il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship between economy and politics, no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although—or, rather, because—these two levels are inextricably intertwined.
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― The Parallax View
― The Parallax View
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One way of dying is to make your death alter the state of things in such a way that you no longer have any reason to be a part of it. Thus death can have the effect of a prophetic disappearance. Such were the deaths of Barthes and Lacan, I believe: the world has taken another direction since, in which these subtle figures would no longer have had any meaning. The death of Sartre, by contrast, left the world unchanged and seems an ineluctable, but insignifi cant event. Before dying, he was alread
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― Cool Memories
― Cool Memories
Psychoanalysis, rhetoric and literature have more in common than it might seem. Freud himself wr…more
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community for:
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Sylvia Bataille somehow bagged Jacques Lacan("the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud"…more
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More fun to read than most psychoanalysts' writing and still as clear as doing the NY Time's cro…more
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