Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Signifier, Non-Signifying but Despotic

In delineating the unconscious as the (no longer merely psychic, as in Freud, but Symbolic (social?)) repository, as it were, of repressed elements, Jacques Lacan stresses that the rules (the Law) these elements are subject to (that determine the shape, as it were, of the unconscious, what it looks like, what’s in there, what happens

Radical Thought

A new group called Radical Thought has been created on Facebook. If you don’t have an account, you can create one there, and then go directly to the group’s site. If that doesn’t work, once you’re already logged-in, go to Groups, and then on the search field, type in “Radical Thought.” (In my experience, there’s

Paranoiac Hoarding in the Home

[Image from Cartoonstock] There is a certain way of life that makes the house a private fortress. I don’t mean medieval fortresses defended by soldiers to prevent the entrance of others. Then again, maybe it is that. Only our fortresses are not only safe havens or a simple mark of territory. They contain not only