Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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The Subject Is Not Identical to the Human Being
The subject, lecon says, is not the cause of himself. He bears within him the worm of the cause that splits him. This is one of those laconian statements that seem so true, and yet i it soofton,. So how could we try to approach these? I mean, w we need to clarify some concepts. The subject in lagan is not identical. Is not equivalent to saying, the human being, a human being can be a subject, but itis not always the case that a human being is the subject. And so they are not exactly identical. They are not synonyms. That subject implies that you are already a subject of language. It is
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