![]() ![]() ![]() Not only were we not special or central, but we didn’t even have control of our own minds. Finally, Freud unveiled the role of the unconscious in psychic processes. Then Darwin showed how man emerged from blind evolution which made humanity much less special among other animals. Like psychoanalysis, Marxism has been considered by many to be profoundly wrong in its underlying assumptions.įreud wrote about three successive humiliations of man (three narcissistic illnesses).įirst, Copernicus showed that the Earth revolved around the sun which meant that humans were not in the central location of the cosmos. ![]() Freud’s ideas were buried where it always belonged, with all the other pre-scientific obscurantist quests for hidden meanings, alongside dream readers and religious confessors. With new advances in the brain sciences, there was a proclamation of the death of psychoanalysis. The book begins with a description of a major development that occurred at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000. Zizek in How to Read Lacan does not merely articulate the philosophy of Lacan but adds his own philosophical slant. ![]()
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