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Missing Signifier

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Is It a Gan, a Structuralist of the Real?

Lacont is a structuralist of the real that's how, that's how i'd like to say it. She pushes against the received reading of lacon as a linguistic theorist. Her whole point is about the way in which there's this barrier to conscious knowledge becas and its cast. What she's nodding up together is missing signifyer, castration and unconscious,. Like all those things ar r in, she's bringing them together. I think froyd thinks we can do that, we can bring it all into consciousness. But i think he was, ironically, very desimistic, and in civilization is discontents.

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