/lit/ - Literature

>there is no fake personality
>there is nothing behind the mask, it's an illusion
>you are the mask
Read Lacan

where do I start? should I start?

Explain Lacan to an absolute fucking retard who knows literally nothing about philosophy (i.e., myself)

If I'm starting from ground zero, what is a path of literature I could take to understand Lacan? I've no background in philosophy or psychoanalysis

>>17905744
start desiring you melancholic

>Lacan argues that "man's desire is the desire of the Other".

>Desire is the desire of the Other's desire, meaning that desire is the object of another's desire and that desire is also desire for recognition. Here Lacan follows Alexandre Kojève who follows Hegel's master slave dialectic: for Kojève the subject must risk his own life if he wants to achieve the desired prestige.

>This desire to be the object of another's desire is best exemplified in the Oedipus complex, when the subject desires to be the phallus of the mother.

>Lacan contends that the subject desires from the point of view of another whereby the object of someone's desire is an object desired by another one: what makes the object desirable is that it is precisely desired by someone else

>Désir de l'Autre, desire of the other. The fundamental desire is the incestuous desire for the mother, the primordial Other

>Desire is "the desire for something else" since it is impossible to desire what one already has. The object of desire is continually deferred, which is why desire is a metonymy

>Desire appears in the field of the Other, that is in the unconscious

>Lacan the first person who occupies the place of the Other is the mother and at first the child is at her mercy. Only when the father articulates desire with the law by castrating the mother, the subject is liberated from the mother's desire.

Was he right?

>>10598985
Notice one prominent name missing from the list