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the Other

A collection of 5 issues

The shift in Lacan's teaching

From The Madness of Each One by Jorge Assef Lacan, throughout his teaching, made the same movement as the epoch. His first teaching, the classical one, consisted of a theoretical structure that is based on a consistent big Other, therefore the Name-of-the-Father was at the center. Lacan in his last

The fantasy of an evil Other

Writing in The Atlantic, David Brooks focuses on a turn in how people “self-identified” and calls our attention to the following: Sometime around 1970, the American personality changed. In prior decades, people tended to define themselves according to the social roles they played: I’m a farmer, teacher, housewife, priest.

Remember this about the Other

In his 2000 article, Melancholy and the Act, Žižek writes: The Lacanian big Other designates not merely the explicit symbolic Rules regulating social interaction but also the intricate cobweb of unwritten, implicit rules. I think this is important to remember.

Things & Stuff | 003 "The Other Does Not Exist"

0.0 – Preamble Recently, I've been doing some research/reading the idea of "the lying truth," which I'm going to try to put to use in a paper that I'm writing for the LACK conference that will be taking place in April.

Chè voui?

I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this. This is why the Other's question [_la question_ de l'Aurte] – that comes back to the subject from the place from which he expects an oracular reply–