Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Science and Truth"
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The Key Question of Science and Psychoanalysis Is Why?
On the biomaterialistic side, there is not knowledge of yourself but truth about who and what you are. And this truth is usually unconscious except when it pops up in that lovely evening fart that you cut while leaning over to whisper into your lover's ear. Science does not want to know anything about truth as cause. Psychoanalysis is on the side of truth. The key question of science is why? Why is science this way? Why are we like this? It's a question again, not of objectivity, but of objectality.
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