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Excited to finally get to parts of Lacan that influenced some of Judith Butler's work.

"Images and symbols in women cannot be isolated from images and symbols of women. The representation...of female sexuality, whether it is repressed or not, conditions its implementation, and its displaced emergences...seal the fate of the tendencies, however naturally refined one assumes them to be."

"The point is not to know whether I speak of myself in a way that conforms to what I am, but rather to know whether, when I speak of myself, I am the same as the self of whom I speak."

"I am not, where I am the plaything of my thought; I think about what I am where I do not think I am thinking."

This is the most maddening read I have ever embarked on. I am downing secondary sources like ibuprofen in a chronic flare-up.