/lit/ - Literature

whats you favorite postmodern tihnker?

do not cede on your desire, it is who you are

HOW COULD YOU BEAR THIS LIFE YOU HAVE NOW WITHOUT KNOWING IT WILL ALL END

>>14040336
>literally destroys your spiritual mysticism
nothing personal kid

>In the autumn of 1975 Jacques Lacan, the French structuralist psychoanalyst, paid a rare visit to the United States. Convinced that he was world famous, he announced on his arrival in New York that he wanted to make a private visit to the Metropolitan Opera House. 'Tell them I am Lacan,’ he said. His academic hosts were momentarily nonplussed but, knowing the perils of crossing their guest, rapidly found a solution to the problem. They phoned the director of the Metropolitan and told him that Jean-Paul Sartre wanted to visit incognito. Flattered, the director agreed at once. Having been warned not to address the philosopher by name, he received his distinguished French visitor graciously and a memorable day ensued. Lacan was delighted by his welcome.

>Later Lacan scandalised everyone during a lecture at the Massachusetts Instititute of Technology by the way he answered a question about thought put to him by Noam Chomsky. 'We think we think with our brains,' said Lacan. 'But personally I think with my feet. That's the only way I really come into contact with anything solid. I do occasionally think with my forehead, when I bang into something. But I've seen enough electroencephalograms to know there's not the slightest trace of a thought in the brain.' When he heard this, Chomsky concluded that the lecturer must be a madman.

Why does anyone take Lacan seriously?

Ahem.

The only true heterosexuals are female homosexuals.
What did he mean by this?

>>13030168
>"Indeed, IQ is much like the penis or the number i - imaginary."

Is it even worth trying to read Lacan in translation? Should I wait til I'm proficient enough in french?

What the fuck is this guy talking about? wtf is the Other's desire, the mOther desire, the lozenge, or any of this other bullshit terminology? I've read a good bit of Freud, but this guy is just talking an entirely different language.

Can brainlets hope to understand him?

The ultimate Pleb Filter.