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Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 09:09:20 PST
> Lacan of course was the swinging dick of phallocentric
psychoanalysis > and is indirectly responsible for some of the worst
parts of film > theory. The best critique of his work remains Derrida's
essay in The > Post Card which certainly deconstructs psychoanalysis as
a discourse.
Say what you will about Lacan, I'm not interested in defending him at
all, but I doubt that he is in any way responsible for the way film
theorists of the 1970's applied his work to film. That would be like
blaming cognitive scientists for the completely unscientific and
unrigorous film theory of the 1990's that was "based" on cognitive
science.
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