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The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 2

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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The Horror That Never Dissipates

A horror that doesn't dissipate psychically speaking is usually a mark of psychosis. The psychotic has a disoriented relationship to language. But our reality is intrinsically horrifying. And if horror never dissipates, it's called psychosis. That is what the psychotic is up to. They're always under assault by huge imaginary others they're always upon them.

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