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

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Is the Letter Always Arriving at This Destination?

I think there's a couple different things that he means. The number one meaning is one of Mac Truglikite, right? Like, yeah, that the letter always arrives this destination because whoever gets it was the one destined to get itself. And so then you, I mean, this is where quilting point becomes unnecessary. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy, mean person, whatever. It doesn’t matter. But Lecon's whole point in the structural analysis is that it's a dig at SART and his conception of inner subjectivity. He says your structural position determines what you're capable of doing.

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