Cultural Reader

At its most fundamental level, gaze theory interrogates the ways in which viewers engage with visual narratives, and how these narratives, i...

In Lacan's psychoanalytical theory, the term Jouissanc e denotates a kind of pleasure or enjoyment that is linked with sexual aspect...

"The Dialectic of Knowledge" is notion my Jacques Lacan which describes the manner in which knowledge, any form of knowledge, ...

The idea of the "Reality Principle" as it was formulated by Freud was harshly objected in Lacan psychoanalytic theory. Freud d...

Instinctual pressure is of the impulses associated according to Lacan with the mirror stage . for Freud, pressure is characteristic of a...

Transitivism is a psychoanalytic concept suggested by Charlotte Buhler to designate a special kind of identification often observed wit...

In Lacan's theory, Hysterical Repression is a repression of mental content which reemerges through hysterical symptoms. Lacan saw re...

Lacan uses the term "Displacement" to a great extent along the lines of Freud's formulation of the concept. According to F...