1. Ecrits by Jacques Lacan
“Brilliant and innovative ... his seemingly impenetrable writing style has kept many readers from venturing beyond the first page.” (back cover)
That's the marketing copy.
You gotta wonder.
Here’s how it starts:
"My research has led me to the realization that repetition automatism has its basis in what I have called the insistence of the signifying chain. I have isolated this notion as a correlate of the ex-istence (that is, of the eccentric place) in which we must necessarily locate if we are to take Freud’s discovery seriously.”
...or would you rather buy this?
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2 comments:
Seriously funny! Especially to those of us who had to wade through Lacan in silly PhD programs! No sane person would CHOOSE to read Lacan - but the man did mightily influence the world, as seen in your previous post What Would Jackie Do? the first. You're expressing a basically Lacanian understanding of the ego - but much more succinctly and usefully than Lacan ever could. Well done!
And the dance goes on.
Yeah. What he said. I think.
OHD
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