Yes, I know: I’ve used that title before.
Someone with an interest in psychoanalysis has asked me to
explain the difference between Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Well as far as
what they had to say is concerned there isn’t one really: Freud was a fine
prose stylist, and (most of the time) he’s clear, straightforward, and easy to
understand. Lacan said almost exactly the same things as Freud, but a) he said
them a hundred years too late, and b) he said them with a bullshitting
obscurity all too typical of twentieth-century French intellectuals.
If you want to understand psychoanalysis, read Freud. If you
want to impress people, try to read Lacan. Here are pictures of the pair of
them; take your pick:
By the way, I'm pretty sure Freud never really said that.
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