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Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote Descartes’s dictum: “I think therefore I am” as “I am not…

Lacan reformulates the Cartesian identification of thinking with being. His account of the divided subject distinguishes conscious self-awareness from the workings of the…

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Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote Descartes’s dictum: “I think therefore I am” as “I am not where I think, and I think where I am not” ?

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Lacan reformulates the Cartesian identification of thinking with being. His account of the divided subject distinguishes conscious self-awareness from the workings of the unconscious.

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