The Love of Malacanian Thoughts

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Before language acquisition, you are a kind of sympiotically like one being with thi thing that la conque calls the thing with the capital t ah is you get from german dusting. You can think all the way back to kant, the thing in itself. And the lacanian version of the thing actually has direct residences with with the contient thing in itself and the hydegarian thing. Alsoa something like fundamentally ontological, but also something that has to do with sublimity in the contient ent,. In this case, the sublime thing is within your in so so supposedly, nd this is completely mythologic, mythological.

Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines to help us think through our thoughts and emotions, not to mention the meaning of our lives. Mari Ruti is a professor of English literature, with expertise in critical theory, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, especially the work of French theorist Jacques Lacan. We talk about the psychological drive that is motivated by what Lacan calls “lack,” which is related to “desire.” We use this as a way to think about such essential human experiences as mourning, creativity, and love. (We don’t talk about love enough here on the podcast.)

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Mari Ruti received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of critical theory and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Toronto. She is the co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Horizons book series for Bloomsbury.

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