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

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I'll Have Fun Talking About Seminar 23

I think it's some of his best writing, like this is on. He says desire a function central to all human experiences, the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time, this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack. I mean, there's so much about lack here that it's just, it's so great,. It wasn't written to be said but he wrote out what he was going to say. We're starting to talk about these like, so many great formulations in this seminar.

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