For those of you who are lucky enough to not know who Jacques Lacan was, he was a post-Freudian psychoanalyst who… I dislike a great deal. A lot of his writing (if not all of it) is designed specifically to be difficult. Obtuse. Vague.
The defence given by those who like Lacan’s work is that the topic he is attempting to cover is very nebulous and slippery. By using specific terms, by writing clearly, and by formulating coherent arguments, he would be doing a disservice to how complicated the field he was attempting to explain is.
Gosh, that was a bad sentence right there, but it’s positively poetry compared to Lacan. Anyway. I had to read one of his works for class yesterday, and the professor spent today trying to… “explain” is the closest I can come… why Lacan is significant to modern literary analysis.
I disagree a great deal, but I guess it’s important that I read it so that I know I disagree with it. That’s something.
Anyway, nothing else for today. It’s been a rough week, but hopefully things will be looking up in the next few days. Oh, and I forgot that I have to write a Patreon post to thank all those wonderful people for their insane yet unwavering support of my work. Thanks folks!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!