“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”
Quote by Slavoj Žižek
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Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
This book delves into the application of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concepts in the realm of film, examining how his ideas have shaped and been reflected in Hollywood cinema and other cultural contexts. more
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