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Learning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowan

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Lecon's Dialectical Approach to Psychoanalysis

Froud uses terms condensation and displacement to describe scribe how dreams work. And then leconte interestingly translates that to the terms of structural linguistics, metaphor and metonomy. So he sees dreams working in the same way that the language structure makes connections between different words or different signifiers. It's a good example by you that th the dream shows nicely this transition from freu to lacon. The subject emerges through the contradiction within the society. If there was no contradiction in society, thre would be no subject, and vice versa.

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