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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901 – 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist associated with post-structuralism.

The following are some sources of information on Lacan.

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Who is the Big Other, and is there a little Other?

Zizek often draws on Lacan term the Big Other; what is this and what does it mean? One supposes that there may also then be a little other - is this right? What would be sensible examples of either kind?
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?

Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses? I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'm asking because I want to make sense of why post…
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Were Derrida, Lacan, Freud involved in politics?

Were philosophers like Derrida, Lacan, Freud involved in any kind of political party, political movement or had any political ideas? or did they just had theories in fields like psychoanalysis. Edit: Did any of them wanted to change society and make…
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What does Lacan mean by signifiers presenting a subject for another signifier?

I was reading an article on Lacan's Signifier concept posted on nosubject.com. I am very confused by this one sentence: Lacan defines a signifier as "that which represents a subject for another signifier," in opposition to the sign, which…
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Too involved with who you think you are

What does Slavoj Zizek mean when he says "...too involved with who you think you are..." and quoting Lacan "a madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king but also a king who thinks he is a king"? I recognise this structure in an extreme form…
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What is a Master-Signifier?

I am currently reading "The Fragile Absolute" by Slavoj Žižek. In chapter four he talks about the Master-Signifier. I am not very familiar with Lacan's concepts (I think it comes from him), so could someone please explain this concept to me (with…
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Question about Sartre's distinction between "self-consciousness", "subject", and "ego"

I am reading the Routledge Critical Thinkers series on Jacques Lacan, and I have come across this passage about Jean-Paul Sartre: In an early work entitled Transcendence of the Ego (1934) Sartre distinguished between self-consciousness and the ego.…
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Questions on Peter Hallward's introduction to Alain Badiou's Ethics?

In his introduction to "Ethics" by Alain Badiou he does a quick run down on how the analytic ethics of Lacan differ from the philosophical ethics of Badiou. I'm having a hard time understanding some of what he says, particularly this part: 'What…
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Some examples of what lacan calls 'subject'

I've been searching to find some examples of 'subject' in psychoanalysis of lacan and i can't find good examples of 'subject of enunciation' and 'subject of enunciated'. Can someone please give some good examples so that i can better understand the…
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Is Lacanian subjectivity relational?

Descartes notion of the subject is self-subsistent: the self reflecting on itself finds itself. The Lacanian mirror appears to introduce an other to find the self - his notion of the subject appears to be relational rather than the atomic (as in…
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What does Lacan mean when he says "the necessity to eat one's Dasein"?

This page claims: we have to return to the basic questions behind Lacan's statements on the arrival of the letter at its destination and the necessity to eat one's Dasein How can we "eat" a dasein, what does that mean?
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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?

I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half of Totem and Taboo), have a little understanding…
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Is love a phenomenon of mauvaise foi?

In front of love, is still men condemned to be free? Arguably, when in love, the infinite range of possible choices collapses in one, the loved one. Is this a form of mauvaise foi (we convince ourselves that we love that person not to take on the…
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What does lacan mean when speaking of 'subject'

I've read many articles about lacanian subject. But still i can't figure out what it is! Is it a human? Is it a position? If a position, what does it mean to be a position? Somewhere else i read that when lacan speaks of the subject, he means the…
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Researches on 'Ontology of the Subject' with a focus on Lacan

I'm looking for essays about "Lacan's Ontology of the subject" . The point is the formation of them. So, It's like writing a report about the researches already made on "Lacan's Ontology of the subject". How can i find these kinds of essays on…
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