Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We see not because everything is visible, but because something always defies the eye, persisting beyond the remit of mere representation. This… — Fabio Vighi Copy Share Image
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ' il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
