I bet if you were able to ask Lacan, he would say that far from inventing anything, he was describing the way the psyche really functions.
Long ago, Lenny Bruce pointed out that there are lots of fag jokes and hardly any dyke jokes, because if you tell dyke jokes, they punch you in the mouth. I believe this says a lot about the differential acceptability of racist vs. sexist speech.
Every time there's a war + conscription, the authorities discover that poor people tend to be smaller, less physically fit, and more affected by chronic disease than richer people. This generally results in at least a short-term supply of better food for poor people, which in turn results in healthier and less-stunted poor people.
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Long ago, Lenny Bruce pointed out that there are lots of fag jokes and hardly any dyke jokes, because if you tell dyke jokes, they punch you in the mouth. I believe this says a lot about the differential acceptability of racist vs. sexist speech.
Every time there's a war + conscription, the authorities discover that poor people tend to be smaller, less physically fit, and more affected by chronic disease than richer people. This generally results in at least a short-term supply of better food for poor people, which in turn results in healthier and less-stunted poor people.
BTW, I like iceberg lettuce.