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I'm Not a Linguist, I'm a Psychoanalyst, but I Do Defend Him Not Translating Object Into English
Am lacon invents the term linguist tricks andi. I it's justlike, its just a little much for me. And again, i know that's heretical. A lot of people really like that. That's their favourite lacon when h's like beingke,. Like whimsicaland nd nelusive. And i totally get that. Um, and for me, i i like that he's having fun. So i will say this, i do defend him not translating object into english - because the point of the term is that it's supposed to designate a kind of non reducibility to an actual object.
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