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What does Lacanian mean?

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  1. (psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).
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He lives in this space, the interstices of the paternal name, like some Lacanian allegory.
In short, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory can help rhetoricians navigate the posthumanist theoretical landscape in a characteristically rhetorical way.
For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.
To put a Lacanian spin on this, Malgas introjects or ingests the symbolic order.
In Lacanian theory it is not some fundamental sexual imperative that motivates desire, but the loss of the real, which leaves an incompleteness, a lack.
It is this manoeuvre that prevents Lacanian linguistics from being a simple logocentrism since what is referred to as the 'concept' would easily become another signifier.

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