Lacan & That Glittering Sardine Can

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Oct 2 16:00:33 PDT 1999


Doug replied to me:
>>Lacan's "point of light" emerges through the separation of the intellectual
>>and the working class, and it is this historical division of mental and
>>manual labor that Lacan's theory of the Real eternalizes
>
>Maybe he eternalizes it, but wouldn't a class-based psychology be
>appropriate to a class-based society?

As long as a class-based psychology is not offered as 'the (in)human condition,' but this substitution (= eternalization) is exactly what makes Lacan and Heidegger sound 'profound,' no?

Yoshie



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