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Lacan's Seminar 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory...

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The Square Root Function Is the Relationship Between Real and Symbolic, Right?

Lacan: I think at times real is reality, then other times it's a stumbling block of the symbolic. In both cases, the square root function is the thing that first takes us from imaginary to symbolic, and then from symbolic to real. There are just some incredible lines, like in different places,. Yeah, I don't know if I, do we want to jump to some? I don't knows if I want to go. Go read those reads.

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