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Psychoanalysis & Narrative

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Star Wars - The Master Signifier, Right?

Sally Kohn: I think narrative in a fundamental way is, uh, is psychoanalytic. She says it's not an application of one to the other and that we're just applying psychoanalysis over there. In this episode she discusses Star Wars' "master signifier" The message from Princess Leah inside R2D2 kick-starts the universe but then something else happens which makes us want more. Salkin: A narrator is someone who knows and the beginning of story is either war or civil war.

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