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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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Matviyenko, S. (2018). Graphocentrism in Psychoanalysis. In: Matviyenko, S., Roof, J. (eds) Lacan and the Posthuman. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76327-9_7
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