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Lacan in 90 Minutes
This section introduces Lacan historically and conceptually without technical deep dives. It is meant to reduce anxiety and provide orientation.
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Who Lacan Was
A brief intellectual biography: psychiatry, Freud, structuralism, and the seminars.
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Why Lacan Is Difficult
Why his style resists simplification, and why that difficulty is deliberate.
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The Problem Lacan Thought Psychoanalysis Faced
Ego psychology, adaptation, and the return to Freud.
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What to Do Next
Links forward to the Key Concepts series.
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