
Lacan's Seminar 1: Freud's Papers on Technique
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Is There a Simple Duplicity of Terms?
There is never a simple duplicity of terms, and this is against the two-body psychology. It's not only that I see the other, I see him seeing me, which implicates the third term. There are always three terms in the structure, even if these three terms are not explicitly present. Melan Delar's a great formulation is every duality depends on a third. And that's in Hitchcock's objects. That's what Lorenzo Keza would start to talk about as the not-to that's at the center of psychoanalysis.
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