The game of Hide-and-Seek teaches children to bear absence, to symbolize presence, to delay gratification, and to discover ...

Lacan distinguishes four signifiers (words that mean or signify something specific), the mutable relations among which yield four different discourses (of the master, the university, the hysteric and ...

The Signifier Review Steve C 25/11/20 Comments Closed In these times of shiny new consoles and PC components, it can be easy to take technological development for granted.

The master signifier is the unconscious sinthome, the cipher of enjoyment, to which the subject was unknowingly subjected. The crucial point not to be missed here is how the late Lacan's ...

Lacan had something interesting to say about that — he remarked that the discourse of the capitalist is the “cleverest discourse” ever devised by humans. One may wonder why, but it is only when one ...

Raw Fury and developer Playmestudio have revealed The Signifier: Director’s Cut, an updated version of The Signifier that was released last year. This Director’s Cut has been confirmed for PC ...

Psychological thriller The Signifier: Director’s Cut will launch for PC and Mac via Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store on April 22, publisher Raw Fury and developer Playmestudio announced. The … ...

Do you “really” consider that Slavoj Zizek’s signifiers are “foreclosed”? Lacan used to say that what is forced from the symbolic resurface in the real.

If using Lacan’s work to analyze crime-scene photos doesn’t make it make sense to me, I don’t think anything will. Read More. Laugh Lines. Laugh Lines No. 21: New York City, Part 2.

From Freud’s grandson to Lacan’s theory of the signifier and from Evelyn to human infants, the game of Hide-and-Seek is a profound ritual of psychological development.