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

Why Theory

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I Don't Think It's Reading Their Desire, Ryan.

Lacon says that psychoanalysis is on to something beyond the intersubjective situation. And so he shows this through chance relations. Like if you look at like a string of coin tosses and you try to group them because it's just heads or tails, you'll come up with an impossibility. Lacon: Even in the random chance, like if you have a string of Coin flips, what will happen is an order will develop that will generate possibility and impossibility.

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