Lacan develops the notion of the Name-of-the-Father as a signifier underpinning the Law from which meaning can be secured and guaranteed for any discourse to function. He claims that this “Other of the Other” does not exist, yet it functions as a virtual ideological referent.

The correct Marxist line is to privilege the plus-de-jouir between the two 😤

takes paranoia as the prevailing framework for understanding social/political discord (think of recent commentaries on conspiracy theories, surveillance capitalism, dis-information, etc.).

usurped neurosis, along with repression, as the primary model of unconscious functioning. Klein's projective identification and Bion's alpha/beta-functions are paradigmatic of this turn, still major influences in modern mentalization theory. Today, even much of psychoanalytic social commentary ...

Where can I read more about this Chiesa/Zizek debate? Love your work!