Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd)

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 1 09:03:56 PST 1998


In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.9812010917030.1750-100000 at chuma.cas.usf.edu>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes
> I particularly like the
>way Dawkins shows his complete ignorance of Lacan by talking about "erect
>penises" instead of "the phallus."

Yes, indeed, what utter ignorance to confuse the phallus with a penis. How gloriously naive. Ha ha ha. Amazingly, the Oxford English Dictionary makes the self-same error! Don't they know that words mean just what Lacan wants them to mean? -- Jim heartfield



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