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"Jacques Lacan, a psychoanalyst whose thought combines insights from Freud and from structuralist linguistics, has described language as the “structural unconscious.” The self does not stand behind language but in the thick of it, caught in a swirling crosscurrent of competing discourses and vocabularies that determine the way one thinks and speaks." - Is There Meaning in the Text

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