Lacan Don't Make for the Good English

[nikitangel]

Okay.

You know how you can get Google to translate a site into English? It's kind of funny, right, to see what pops up? Ha ha, we say, such funny English.

It's less funny when you're trying to read Lacan and it feels like Google has also translated this particular version.

I know the words. I can define them. They're just not ... right, in

Comments

[cathexys]

read zizek!! seriously@!!! zizek was my god.

other than that, i always liked jonathan lee's intro to lacan. it was very clearly written and got very little wrong (unlike many other easy lacan intros).

[nikitangel]

Ah, an intro would be nice. No, I am currently plunged into passages like this:

"Circulatory tree, tree of life of the cerebellum, tree of Saturn, tree of Diana, crystals formed in a tree struck by lightning, is it your figure that traces our destiny for us in the tortoise-shell cracked by the fire, or your lightning that causes that slow shift in the axis of being to surge up from an unnamable night into the [illegible] of language?"

Seriously, was he ON something at the time of writing?

[cathexys]

seriously: try to check out of the library jonathan scott lee, jacques lacan (twayne 1990)

and i'll mail you whatever i might have written up...no guarantees, though :-)

[magelette]

And Lacan's one of the easier of the harder ones... The important thing to remember about Lacan is that he's obsessed with breasts. He and Freud had a falling out so he decided to make his own Oepidal theory up that didn't work quite as well and blamed everything on breastfeeding.

[nikitangel]

Breasts, eh? Now *that* would have been a more interesting reading! Of course, he did whine a bit about "urinary segregation", so I can see he has some sex issues.

[kitzen_kat]

And it gets even better when you read Luce Irigaray's works when she moved away from Lacanian concepts. No, on second thoughts, stay away from that for a while. Grapple with Lacan and then go on to French feminists.

[cabell]

Dude, I love your icon.

And yeah. Lacan. What more can you say? >_<

[nikitangel]

Hee! Icon is by absoluticon. I miss that show.

[velvetandlace]

Oh my goodness, Lacan at his worst. I remember they made us read Lacan in first year - first year, my poor straight-from-high-school head nearly exploded!