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Tag Archives: Jacques Lacan
Outsourcing our Memory
I’ve been editing some journals lately and I am often struck by how little I remember about events that theoretically happened in my own life. I wonder at my own reports of meeting what sound like wonderful people and having … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, Editing, Journaling, Literary Theory, Social Media, Writing
Tagged blog, blogging, Descartes, Jacques Lacan, Outsourcing memory, Story, whimsey
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The Word
When I was young I thought a single word could change everything. As I grew older I thought I needed to instead depend on collections of words, and hoped that by their jostling Brownian randomness they would somehow settle into … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Writing
Tagged Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Leonard Cohen, Signified, Signifier
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