/lit/ - Literature

>La copine n'existe pas.

You know who didn't sign that French law lowering the age of consent and is still a highly relevant philosophe...

Where was her right
Where was he wrong
Thoughts and criticism
better alternatives?

We all act as though the big Other is watching

/lit/ - I really want to get into this guy.

Where do I start? I am actually trying to understand the concepts of jouissance, objet petit a and so on, but I think, that I need a guide of some sorts, as Lacan can be frustratingly incomprehensible.

If the unconscious is structured like a language, then it--the id, es--the it itself is precisely the signifier, the signifier that emerges as language: not that it is foundational to language, because Lacan's point, like the point of many other people in our syllabus, is not that language expresses thought.

It's not at all that language expresses thought, but that language constitutes thought, that language brings thought, consciousness, or a sense of things into being, and that this is articulated through language.

Now this, of course, brings us immediately to certain issues of conflict that Lacan has not just with other forms of psychoanalysis but with a whole philosophical tradition.

If you are a materialist--in other words, if you believe that things come first and consciousness comes second: that is to say, if you're a Marxist, if you believe that consciousness, ideology, or call it what you will, is determined by existing material circumstances--as one says--you can't very well think that existing material circumstances are produced by language. Whoa.

If by the same token you're a positivist, if you believe that the meaning of things is something that is expressed by language, something that language is brought into being to express: then also you are giving priority to things, to that which is behind language, to that which gives rise to language--rather than, as Lacan does, giving priority to language.

Your thoughts on cultural studies?

Is there any academic credibility there?

Jacques Lacan is considered the most influential psychologist since Freud. Why is it then that his ideas and theories are not widely known at all?

Do you know any of his theories /lit/?

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I'd say they are Real

there is no unconscious except for the speaking being