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Okay. Jacques Lacan in one minute
So Lacan was a French pyschoanalyst and philosopher whose ideas are sort of like Freud on high
grade *** mixed with hallucinogens, and we mean that in the most admiring sense).
Freud had the oral phase and the *** phase (and all that ***), so Lacan has the mirror
stage, when he says children first realize they're not symbiotically one with the luscious
sucking *** of the mother. Hence we go through life desiring to reconnect with a wholeness
with the fictive imago that we think is the real self. Thus we're always seeking the objet
petit a, the person or thing that will complete us, even though it doesn't exist. No wonder
our perception of body image is so *** up.
As far as the subconscious. Freud's ego, id and superego meet Lacan's imaginary realm,
which is how we identify with things pre-language, the symbolic realm (which draw on Sassure's
idea of signifier/signified, and caused Lacan to say that the unconscious is structured
like a language), and the Real, which if we ever reached it our brains would basically
explode.
This leads us to the coolest to pronouce Lacanian term, jouissance, intense pleasure and intense
pain, which is what we feel when we approach the Real.
Oh yeah, and Lacan really liked using weird algebraic formulae.