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Lacan's Hegelian Confusion
- Lacan confuses Hegel's concepts of the beautiful soul and law of the heart, mixing hysterical and paranoid attitudes.
- This mistake reveals Lacan's uneven philosophical rigor and shapes his political and theoretical interpretations.
Dosting vs. Abj'ai as High Point
- Rick Boothby sees Lacan's seminar seven and the concept of dosting as Lacan's theoretical high point.
- Slavoj Žižek disagrees, favoring seminar eleven and later seminars focusing on abj'ai and real's impasse.
Dosting as Alien Other
- Dosting represents the unknown, threatening enjoyment of the Other akin to the alien in horror films.
- It symbolizes the subject's internal opacity and the neighbor's dangerous unknowability.