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Impressions on “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient” by Jacques Lacan
What does not help to understand the text « L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient » by Jacques Lacan is that his examples or analogies rarely serve to simplify the text. That a boy and girl arrive by train in the HOMMES … Continue reading → Continue reading
Lacan
Understanding linguistics and psychoanalysis all in one text is not something that comes naturally to me, so I’m going to use this space to go ahead and try to make some sense of what I just read and, to the best of my ability, throw in a comment or two. What I understand as the […]
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Language and the unconscious – Lacan
To say that Lacan’s “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason, Since Freud” is somewhat of a difficult read would be a gross understatement. Those not versed in the fundamentals of psychoanalysis or Freudian Psychology would most … Continue reading → Continue reading
The Instance of the Letter – Jacques Lacan
Lacan followed Saussure’s structural linguistics and integrates Saussure’s theories in his own opinions. Lacan thought the unity with mother’s body is our primordial experience, all desire is determined by this original lost unity which is unattainable even though all desired … Continue reading → Continue reading
