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The Parallax View #97: Lacan and stuff

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Lacon's Meta Analysis of the King's Head

Lacon offers some form of meta analysis about how he comes to these concepts or how to deal with the kind of arbitrariness of these concepts. He seems to be using the analytic clinic to reinvent philosophical and literary concepts. That's what it seems to me that he's doing. I think obviously he's trying to invoke a certain powerful image with the idea of woman as a crocodile. Do we need to say, oh women are crocodiles now? No, that would be silly. But what we're trying to get at with that image is the idea of basically the, the eatable clink the devouring mother.

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