But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
Jacques LacanAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: french
- Born: April 13, 1901
- Died: September 9, 1981
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