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Dominic, Most of the student understanding and citation of Lacan is based not on Lacan's work itself, but on Slavoj Zizek's pop-culture meditations on it. Zizek is probably the most prominent public intellectual of the radical left in the US; there's even a new documentary about him that was just placed in public release: http://www.zizekthemovie.com/ Lacan's own "The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis" and even "Ecrits" is not the sort of work to set radicals' hearts afire; it's dense, constantly wrapping back on itself and questioning itself, with very little explicit content about politics. Zizek appropriates Lacan for a Marxist perspective, which Lacan didn't necessarily share. Not as I see it, anyway; he has more in common with Georges Bataille's "Erotism" than with Mao's Little Red Book. Best, George Dominic Fox wrote: > Brutality is one way of producing a truth. Probably quite apposite > when the enemies of that truth are so given to simpering. > > I have been surprised in recent months by the apparently widespread > canonization of Lacan among the blogging intellectuals of the hard > (well, *ish* - I mean the SWP and its various subsidiaries) left. Is > it a student thing? > > Dominic > > > -- George Hunka [log in to unmask] http://www.ghunka.com