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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Rat and the Maze, Is There a Connection?

I think it's interesting what you brought up here, because in humans, as in other animals, on the instinctual level, we can think of a rhythm. Do you see what I'm saying? Where you kind of have to build at that level, even a process. You have to construct the system to interpret your needs or desires or whatever. That's almost a signifier, in a sense, to go back to seminar 20 at the end, LeCon's discussion of the rat and the maze. There has to be an issue, there has to be pressure before I can interpret.

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