>Lacan was first and foremost a clinician, and clinical concerns

>>8826748

look at freud's essays on moses, on the three caskets—look at totem and taboo, beyond the pleasure principle. freud is dealing with philosophical questions, and indeed with the death drive approaches well night metaphysical heights of abstraction. the inference to draw here is not so much that philosophy is a prelude to psychoanalysis, but rather that psychoanalysis constituted itself as a formalization of philosophy. that all philosophy can be psychoanalytically referenced is therefore no surprise.

>>8826770
this seems reasonable

>>8826748
>Lacan was first and foremost a clinician

have some connection to reality for Christ's sake

>>8826807
You don't know what a clinic fundamentally is.

>>8826896
yes, classic tack, claim that a word "fundamentally" means something other than what it in fact means, you get him

>>8826901
The word has many uses, you're not getting that. A clinic in its general usage is where you /recline/, and therefore is utilized in various situations. What do you do in psychoanalysis? You lay back on a couch.

>>8826939

as someone who believes psychoanalysis has a definite realm of application, I must say that you are not making a very powerful case for it

>>8826748
Psychoanalysis is blatant pseudoscience. It's like astrology for french pedophiles

>>8826748
Everything can be analyzed from a sufficiently advanced viewpoint. The question is, is this actually useful?

>>8826748
Lacan was first and foremost a charlatan

>>8827367
You're very dumb. You didn't know what a clinic was, and I told you what it was. What "case" of psychoanalysis are you talking about?

>>8828042

i'm not him, i'm the first reply.