Subject, enjoyment, hegemony: a discussion of Ernesto Laclau's interpretation of empty signifiers and the real as impossible in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Ernesto Laclau's theory of hegemony interprets in a peculiar way two central concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis: the signifier and the real. Laclau maintains that signifiers are per se tendentially empty and that there is some constituting impossibility in every social system, that is, some real in...
| Published in: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 197 - 209 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2020
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