Philip Hill (1)

If this was for beginners, dread to think what "Lacan for experts" entails ! Like Freud , Lacan further threads down the rabbit hole deep within the recesses of the human mind ; introducing concepts like the child & the "Mirror Stage" , the "Other", Phallus complex and more .
No question that he's on to something, having to deal with a toddler myself – I can attest to certain aspects of his psychoanalytic observations; however, things get weird pretty fast; Also, the use of mathematics seemed to me like a desperate attempt to legitimize his work.… (mehr)