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I would list all the thinkers in Quantu Theory that believed in it's religious implications but it would be too tedious. Most of the founders of QM found religious implications in it. Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments wh...

Sure that proves all continental theory is bunk. I did not make that claim. I only claim that some of it is bunk. But Lacan is in that class. Try re-wording some of his claims, or explaining their content. The re-wording or explanation must be faithful to the original: it would be cheating to subst...

Could the division be overcome simply by asserting that Lacan is wrong in claiming that the Symbolic is masculine in spite of the seeming historical validity of that assertion? Lacan's claim, as stated here (and very likely as stated in the original), is a vacuous claim by a vacuous author. I sugge...

I personally think that Lacan's identification of the masculine with the symbolic order leads to a sexist dichotomy. It seems to me that Lacan's primary injuction-acting as the Patriarchical/Other/God- is the separation of the Real from language. I think that that separation is not only false but it...

Everything in life perplexes me. Maybe I am too stupid to understand common sense so I look reasons and arguments when other people say they don't need it. My biggest interests are in religion and sex. I would like to be able to one day read Kant so I can finally be relieved of the need to find a ph...