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Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Subject of Psychoanalysis Is the Subject of Science

Leconte: The subject upon which we operate in psychoanalysis can only be the subject of science. Leconte says freud's writings show that it was this very scientism that led him to pave the way for his work. He claimsFreud takes phenomena of the human mind, such as a dream or an illness, and he says they are explainable. This sentence implies that unless you think that the phenomena of the mind are explainable, will not, then you cannot see what sagonac is about.

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