Quotes Tagged With :lacan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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