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The Unconscious Is Structured Like A Language

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The unconscious is structured like language. CHAPTER 3 ANTI-HUMANISM: SELF AND LANGUAGE Since ages, human reality has been conceived of as a unity in terms of “self or ‘subject’. Post-structuralism, however, deconstructs it and the only theory that it has to offer in this regard is that there cannot be a human subject without language. There can be no human subject without language means that it is language which is the idemtitication of a human being. Man expresses himself in language and as he uses language the meaning emerges in it as the signified turns into a signifier continuously Saussure had earlier given a linguistic model in this regard emphasising upon the difference between langue and parole Post- structuralism took @ new turn when Jacques Lacan interpreted the interrelation Anti-Humanism: Self and Language of unconscious and conscious on the same lines as that between Saussure’s langue and parole Lacan held that viewed from this perspective, it would be easy to grasp the real nature of the unconscious as understood by the Freudian psychoanalysis, The traditional and conventional pre-Freudian psychology had given out of proportion significance to consciousness and had failed to appreciate the immense potentials of the unconscious. It used to view it as purely irrational and devoid of any reason, Freud, however, restored the balance by discovering the hidden rationality and the peculiar logic operating in the unconscious It was left upon Lacan to sev the inherent relation between Freud's and Saussure’s conceptual systems and (0 blend them into a fresh framework which can appreciate the Freudian discovery of the language of the unconsvious and to synthesise it with the Saussurean discovery of the unconscious of language This new interpretation of Freud was in sharp contrast to the one prevalent in the orthodox circles and represented by Heinz, Hartman's view that the fundamental disturbances in human beings are rooted in their inability to adapt to their social environment In this way it encouraged the cult of normal man, Lacan strongly opposed this view and sided with the non- conformist desires of the unconscious. He writes, “In any case it appears

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