
Mirror Stage
Why Theory
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I'm Gonna My Hostel Look to This Essay
The damage Lacan did to film theory alone is this I think incalculable. It's almost like we're getting here that narcissism of small differences that Freud talks about. The problem with burning books is we don't burn the right ones and I think this is when we should have burned. People still think psychoanalytic film theory is Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey so it's kind of in mirror stage, he says. "I find it kind of maddening"
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