The author also explores Lacan's relationships with other influential thinkers, including Freud, Foucault, and Derrida, and provides a thorough overview of his intellectual biography.
In an age of algorithmic prediction and behavioral modification, offers a radical alternative: a vision of the human being as irreducibly divided . We are not self-transparent agents. We are speaking beings haunted by a gap between what we say and what we mean, between what we desire and what we ask for. The author also explores Lacan's relationships with other
Lacan’s practical approach was as radical as his theory. Most famously, he introduced Unlike the standard 50-minute hour, Lacan would sometimes end a session after only five or ten minutes if the patient hit a significant "punctuation" point or a moment of truth. We are speaking beings haunted by a gap
: This is the "sublime" object within an ordinary object that makes it desirable. It represents a lost part of ourselves and is the engine that drives perpetual desire. The Barred Subject ( : This is the "sublime" object within an
The author also explores Lacan's relationships with other influential thinkers, including Freud, Foucault, and Derrida, and provides a thorough overview of his intellectual biography.
In an age of algorithmic prediction and behavioral modification, offers a radical alternative: a vision of the human being as irreducibly divided . We are not self-transparent agents. We are speaking beings haunted by a gap between what we say and what we mean, between what we desire and what we ask for.
Lacan’s practical approach was as radical as his theory. Most famously, he introduced Unlike the standard 50-minute hour, Lacan would sometimes end a session after only five or ten minutes if the patient hit a significant "punctuation" point or a moment of truth.
: This is the "sublime" object within an ordinary object that makes it desirable. It represents a lost part of ourselves and is the engine that drives perpetual desire. The Barred Subject (