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The way Lacan talks about "truth"

The way Lacan talks about "truth"

Speaking about the structure of truth Lacan says, We must not take the term "fictions" here as referring to something illusory or deceptive [...] but as covering precisely what I highlighted aphoristically by emphasizing that truth [...] by its very essence [...] in ad of itself, has a fictional structure. I&

Story as carrier of other things

From the July 20th post on Ganzeer Today: Story is carrier wave for philosophical pondering, parable, moral compass tuning, and factual knowledge. Drama is, for the most part, a really great delivery system. Yeah.

Is the Unconscious Real? No!

From Reading A Symptom, by Jacques-Alain Miller. The Unconscious is a Fundamental Hypothesis: The unconscious that lacks Being is represented by a hypothesis, an idea, a theory. It lacks Being. It always slips away, eluding our conscious attempts to contain, control, or understand it. The unconscious could be said to