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Parallax Sangha #3: Owen Cox

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The Why of Dialectics, Meaning Why Don't Frozen Knowledge

The non-relationship is a concept that I think comes out of Lacan and it reflects this idea that we are ourselves divided subjects. Post Freud, we can see that we have unconscious, that we by definition are not conscious of. So when I'm in a relationship with someone else, say with my girlfriend or with Andrew or Nils or whatever, there's also all the other unconscious stuff that neither of us are conscious of. And it makes it, there's not actually a relationship there. There's only a partial relationship. But we have a tendency to seek out frozen systems on knowledge,. Frozen signifiers, frozen concepts that we use to try and explain it all and give us

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