
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 2
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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How Does a Dictionary Work?
The unconscious is a space, some place to be mapped. This structure of language that we're talking about at the level of the unconscious is no different from how a dictionary works. If I open a dictionary and I look up the word cat. I'm not just going to have a clear definition. I'm going to see other words. And it is precisely this that you just saw in Santi's drawing. That's what this looks like mapped. It's mapping it linearly much as I was like as an equation where this needs to happen. But the idea realistically is that this would not even be a two dimensional element. This is like the death stars blueprint as they throw it up
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