Tag: Name of the Father

• Desire as Metonymy

  “Desire is shaped like a metonymy.” I had read this several times over the years, a quote attributed to Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.  I had attempted to understand this cognitively. However, it wasn’t until earlier today that the full implications of his statement dawned on me experientially. Lacan’s is a psychology of desire. His desire…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 27, 2011

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  Jacques Lacan, Metaphor, Metonymy, Name of the Father, psychology, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Žižek, Social Sciences