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The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 3

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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The Treasure Trove of Symbolic Responses

The big other is not a being, even though it kind of works as the man. The better word for this is simply society. This is all the laws that make up societies, the norms and these are the mores. Lacan: Big A here equals the inventory or the treasure trove of responses available. It's every option that is available to me as a parent when my kid cries out.

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