How to Read Lacan
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What’s it about?
Your sense of self is a fragile fiction. Žižek uses Lacan to reveal the void at your core and how desire, language, and ideology shape—and trap—you.
You’ll learn
- The self is a misrecognition
- Desire is the desire of the Other
- Reality is a fantasy construct
- True acts shatter your identity