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 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 ...

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.

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.