Quotes Tagged With :lacan

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never....

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the....

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For....

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is....

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits....

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my....

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without....

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language.....

The abject impulse is inalienably connected with the feminine, specifically the maternal. As it forms....

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous,....