Questions tagged [lacan]
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901 – 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist associated with post-structuralism.
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What does Lacan mean by signifiers presenting a subject for another signifier?
I was reading an article on Lacan's Signifier concept posted on nosubject.com. I am very confused by this one sentence:
Lacan defines a signifier as
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Question about Sartre's distinction between "self-consciousness", "subject", and "ego"
I am reading the Routledge Critical Thinkers series on Jacques Lacan, and I have come across this passage about Jean-Paul Sartre:
In an early work entitled Transcendence of the Ego (1934) Sartre
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What's Lacan communicating about the ne explétif?
Zizek's Ontology ..., by Prof Adrian Johnston BA PhD. p. 249.
I'm trying to brush up on French and found this on the ne explétif. But I can't understand anything to the left of my red line, like this ...
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Lacan: a void at the heart of the subject
Can anybody explain what this Lacan's dictum exactly is?
extract from book Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh:
... Lacan’s dictum that there is a void at the heart of the subject that we fill ...
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Are dreams just the world without the big Other?
Are dreams an alternative world where there is no big Other as the ever observing agency mentioned by Lacan?
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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?
I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half ...
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Too involved with who you think you are
What does Slavoj Zizek mean when he says "...too involved with who you think you are..." and quoting Lacan "a madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king but also a king who thinks he is a ...
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Questions on Peter Hallward's introduction to Alain Badiou's Ethics?
In his introduction to "Ethics" by Alain Badiou he does a quick run down on how the analytic ethics of Lacan differ from the philosophical ethics of Badiou. I'm having a hard time ...
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Some examples of what lacan calls 'subject'
I've been searching to find some examples of 'subject' in psychoanalysis of lacan and i can't find good examples of 'subject of enunciation' and 'subject of enunciated'. Can someone please give some ...
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Is love a phenomenon of mauvaise foi?
In front of love, is still men condemned to be free? Arguably, when in love, the infinite range of possible choices collapses in one, the loved one. Is this a form of mauvaise foi (we convince ...
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What does lacan mean when speaking of 'subject'
I've read many articles about lacanian subject. But still i can't figure out what it is! Is it a human? Is it a position? If a position, what does it mean to be a position?
Somewhere else i read ...
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Researches on 'Ontology of the Subject' with a focus on Lacan
I'm looking for essays about "Lacan's Ontology of the subject" . The point is the formation of them. So, It's like writing a report about the researches already made on "Lacan's Ontology of the ...
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Jacques Lacan's Structuralism - Terminology
I'm doing a research on Jacques Lacan's Structuralism. I've been told that he had some believes, or ideas about subject.
So, I'm looking for the terminology of Lacan's Structuralism, as the first step ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Lacan seems to invert 'metaphor' and 'metonymy': why?
This good site claims
Metonymy thus concerns the ways in which signifiers can be combined /
linked in a single signifying chain ("horizontal" relations), whereas
metaphor concerns the ways in ...
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