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

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.

Lacan, by contrast, posits that the subject is constitutively misaligned with reality, caught in the structural non-relation between signifier and object. His infamous claim, “There is no such thing ...

Similarly, Elia understood that we must find words or “signifiers” to communicate meaning. ... Lacan uses the symbol $, with the subject S being internally divided, ...

“All the works presented at the exhibition—to some extent—address the reverse side of the image,” Ugay explains. “In The Book of Optics, this is realised through the dualism of the geometrical optics ...

Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint ...

In Ecrits, 30 Lacan concluded: If what Freud discovered, and rediscovers ever more abruptly, has a meaning, it is that the signifier’s displacement determines subjects’ acts, destiny, refusals, ...

Lacan’s thesis is, on the contrary, that each culture lacks “ appropriate signifiers” for itself, for its own representation, which is why fantasies are needed to fill in this gap.

This article extends the remit of Saussurean semiotics from design criticism to design theory. It does this by invoking concepts from the work of psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan. It begins by ...

A TikTok trend that’s about more than French manicures and furs, the look focuses on conspicuous signifiers of wealth earned outside the rule of law. By Callie Holtermann It’s not every day ...