“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at al...

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. ...

“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ ps...

“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between th...

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