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Lacan's Theory of the Quilting Point

In the second half of the podcast, we have some critique of what Lacan does here and some of the things don't necessarily line up with stuff that he's long established in other seminars. We do want to make sure that we're going to explain Lacan for himself to start so that it's this first time anybody is ever hearing this or they're reading this for the first time. So I'm going to put that question to Utah. Why is he even doing this? Right)? And that to me is a real, that's the serious question that the seminar raises because he kind of already has a structure of signification, right? He doesn't ever lay it out explicitly,

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