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Jacques Lacan's Psychoanalytic Theory - Lecture 13

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This lecture introduces Jacques Lacan’s contribution to psychoanalytic criticism, discussing the mirror stage, language and the unconscious, metaphor and metonymy, and the distinction between desire and need.

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- Chapter 1. Peter Brooks and Lacan
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- Chapter 2. Lacan and Freudian Scholarship
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- Chapter 3. The Mirror Stage
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- Chapter 4. Language and the Unconscious
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- Chapter 5. Metonymy, Metaphor, and Desire
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- Chapter 6. What Is Desire?
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- Chapter 7. Slavoj Žižek
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