Lacan

When you speak, the "I" that speaks is never fully in control. Slips of the tongue, jokes, dreams, and symptoms are the "return of the repressed." They are moments when the unconscious breaks through. reverses Descartes: “I am not where I think, and I think where I am not.”

The world of language, laws, and social structures. Lacan famously said, "The unconscious is structured like a language." You don't speak language; language speaks you. When you speak, the "I" that speaks is

Born on April 13, 1901, in Paris, France, Lacan was raised in a middle-class family. His father, Émile Lacan, was a successful businessman, and his mother, Marguerite Veysseyre, came from a family of intellectuals. Lacan's early life was marked by a complex relationship with his parents, which would later influence his theories on the dynamics of family and the construction of the self. Lacan famously said, "The unconscious is structured like

In The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema , Slavoj Žižek (Lacan’s most famous living disciple) puts it bluntly: “Lacan teaches us how to enjoy our symptoms. Not to cure them, but to read them as maps of our impossible desires.” Lacan's early life was marked by a complex

The most famous algebraic sign in system is objet petit a (the "object little a"). The a stands for autre (other).