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(2018) Lacan and the posthuman, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Psychoanalysis is not Humanism, Jacques Lacan reminds us: as the pursuit of writing in speech, psychoanalysis is defined by graphocentrism . Psychoanalytic writing is performed by the agency of the letter, "the material medium that concrete discourse borrows from language." It implies that the not-so-human nature of the speaking subject is taken by psychoanalysis rather seriously: not only posthumanism of the speaking being is fully acknowledged, it is conceived as a deeply human vulnerability. Not only was this vulnerability overlooked, it was strategically repressed by the humanist myth as a defence against the real.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76327-9_7
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Matviyenko, S. (2018)., Graphocentrism in psychoanalysis, in S. Matviyenko & J. Roof (eds.), Lacan and the posthuman, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-127.
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