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

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The Repetition of the Symbolic Structure

In seminar seven, what Antigone does is she goes into the zone between two deaths. And it's like, just like you said, I think she undergoes a symbolic suicide or symbolic death. Then in 11, drive becomes the real of repetition. It kind of stays that way for, for,. for the rest of the time that he, that he lectures. He says there are four fundamental concepts like analysis ones, one's tree, right? One is drive. After 17, obviously he gets hooked up on the idea of the, these discourses, right? And then he gets into the lack of the sexual relationship that starts around 18. The word "drive" doesn't

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