The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect of Desire, Part 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Owl of Minerva Only Takes Flight at Dusk
The owl of Minerva only takes flight at dusk. The brilliance of the owl is not that the owl can turn its head around and look backwards. It's at the end of the day that Minerva the goddess of wisdom doesn't open her eyes until theend of the day. Imagine yourself 40 years from now on your death bed looking back. Are you going to remember the struggle that you're undergoing right now as a definitional struggle? If the answer is yes, you better fight like hell. if the answer is no, you better let that shit roll off your back. And ask yourself this is the dilemma in which you now find yourself a dilemma that you will remember as a self defining issue
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