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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 Greatest Gift Is a Thrown Spear

The child that poops in the toilet meets with applauding family members. You bring the child into the symbolic by teaching them all these appropriate ways to express their needs, and we reward them. There are candies for every poop. And I told you that that seven minutes was indeed a gift of shit. The greatest gift is a totally useless gift.

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