
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 2
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Effect of Language on Human Subjectivity
This is probably going to be the most difficult part of this model. Language has the effect of fragmenting us, because there is language we are split subjects. You're always embodied as a bio animalistic being, but also disembodied. That's why I say the effect of language is a splitting of human subjectivity into these two elements. One is socio linguistic represented by Instagram, the US mail system zoom remember all the examples I brought out. Other is bio animalistic. That's the biological self, the animal self, the self that sweats, the sweat, theself that is now hungry.
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