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Is There a Negativity or a Split in Being?

Lakana's a crucial point of reference for him even says lakana's one of my masters. He doesn't think that he thinks subjectivity is something achieved only through fidelity to an event right so i think that's a crucial part of this rejection negativity. Our subjection to the signifier turns us into subjects according to Lakana. The focus on negativity ironically means we are stuck in animal being with no subjectivity attached to it, writes Luchino Vastola.

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