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Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 3

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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Lacan's Split Subject

The split subject is an irreducible minimum distance between two entities without which you wouldn't have two entities instead you'd have one. A gap a cut will eventually become old J.I.I.R. It's an opening a furrow. This this little a that plagues Lacanians left and right, it's not that complicated. Little a and quote me on this is the minimum distancebetween two entities that allows them to remain distinct. That's all it is. And that's what this bard subject is doing. So in other words there are three elements here in the split subject. There's the sociolinguistic side of things and the biomaterialistic

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