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Lacan's Seminar 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory...

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TV and Movies Are TV and TV Are Movies, Right?

Todd VanDerWerff: TV, like people who make TV think they're making very, very long films. He says that in the sixties and seventies, anyone working in Hollywood would have thought if we do something like that, you'll know we've failed. In this seminar, he talks a lot about the symbolic space of film and television to move from "symbolic reality" The Lacan seminar is on ego psychology and the two body psychology problem.

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