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The Name of the Father (2 of 3): A desire radar
What is enabled by being anchored in the symbolic by the NameoftheFather Lacan throws us a curveball. Mythically, he says, the father can only be an animal. What The father, moreover, must be associated with a name. Huh We revisit the British TV Show How to Look Good Naked, and we try and differentiate the big Other and the NameoftheFather. In psychosis, the relationship to the big Other is not adequately mediated; the Other is not kept at a comfortable distance. In paranoia, the Other intrudes, is too close, and is controlling. In other states of psychosis as in catatonic schizophrenia, for example the Other seems virtually inoperative. Link to board:
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