But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Jacques Lacan

Abstract Arrangement Artificially Broken Could Emphasis Essential General Only Opinion Original Our Phenomena Remain Served Thing Type Up Vain Whose Work Would You Your

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