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...

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Published in:Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 197 - 209
Main Author: Conde Soto, Francisco
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2020
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