Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
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Lecon's Contribution to Psychoanalysis
Ike: I think that freud was really loath to extend psychoanalysis to social problems, d socio cultural questions. And i think laconis always with how that individual psyche relates to the larger social structure. So because of, because lecon sort of ground psychoanalysis in structural linguistics, and because language is inherently social, lecon takes psychoanalysis to that social level where froid really focused on the individual level. Ike: To me, that's absolutely never, should never be a question for psychoanalysis; it must take the collective as the starting point.
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