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Psychoanalysis & Narrative

Why Theory

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The Master Signifier, Right?

There's this intimate relationship between subjects supposed to know and the master signifier. This is one of the wider political, like, social and political things that I think affects the popular and academic study and reception of narrative. And when you reject form, I don't think that's a super critical move. You have to get wrapped up in the fiction that, that there is a subject supposed to know.

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