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Lacan and the Theory of Death Drive

It's interesting that I think when most people talk about this seminar, yeah, they do, they just try to make sense of the Lacan in front of them, right? Yeah. Like it's really interesting how analyses of the discursive structure, like Slavoid does it. Almost every person that we would call Lacanian at some point has made some gesture to the four or five discourses. So it is, it is, and yet there's not usually an attempt to reconcile that with the rest of the theoretical apparatus.

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