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Symbolic Order

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The Position That You Occupy Is So Much More Than Just a Good Guy

The position you're in means so much more than whether you're a good person or not right like that it's the position you occupy that determines what you're gonna do rather than oh nice. I think this is another way in which psychoanalysis is against the notion of conscious will and posits something else behind they are doing the doing the workYeah, Lacan was getting at with this notion of symbolic order that the position he occupies within the capitalist universe has a certain effect on his life. It reminds me of that scene from Glenn Gary Glenn Ross when Alec Baldwin goes around the room and he's like nice guy I don't give a shit and that's kind of what Lacan is saying

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