Jacques Lacan
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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave annual seminars in Paris from 1952 to 1980 and publi
Lacan in 1969
Freud's couch, London, 2004
Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
Jacques Lacan
…satisfied: it is constant in its pressure and eternal. The attainment of desire does not consist in being fulfilled but in its reproduction as such. As Slavoj Žižek puts it, "desire's raison d'être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire". Lacan also distinguishes…
Žižek in 2015
Žižek speaking in 2011