Jacques Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who profoundly reshaped psychoanalysis through a structuralist and linguistic rereading of Freud. Trained in psychiatry in Paris, he became a member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris in 1938, later conducting his influential seminars at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne. His work emphasized the primacy of language in the unconscious, drawing on linguistics, topology, and structuralism. Lacan’s return to Freud critiqued dominant schools such as ego psychology and provoked institutional controversies, leading to his break with the International Psychoanalytic Association. His teaching remains central to psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and cultural critique.
As part of the broader philosophical movement of speculative realism, OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) directly challenges the long-established belief that reality is always determined solely through human perception. Instead, the father of OOO, philosopher Graham Harman, argues that all objects—human and non-human, natural and artificial—exist independently of our subjective conceptualizations. To understand the radical nature and […]
»Paradigm shift« has been, for at least a decade now, one of the most used phrases in landscape architecture. We use it mainly to address the need to focus on design with natural processes in mind. This is important as it concerns our core values, attitude towards nature, the understanding of natural processes and the […]
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