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Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia

Žižek And So On

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The Structure of Fiction

In some way it's a way to avoid pretension, but it's also about these kind of sites of intense enjoyment. Yeah and I think that that's actually why he's so fascinated by you know dime novels or detective fiction or romance novels is because they have an iterable structure where you can see how the characters fit into them right. And that's the whole thing about lecans interpretation of this, the post purloyant letter it's like it has nothing to do with the interiority of the characters in line with in le lau cons point that the unconscious is outside.

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