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June 12, 2020 Unconscious, Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Book-1

The Great Truth (insult?) of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis announces that you are no longer the centre of yourself, since there is another subject within you, the Unconscious. 1

This very short bit of text contains a massive implication.

  1. Interview with Jacques Lacan, Published in L’Express in May 1957↩

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