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Using the absent beginning of the session as shorthand this commentary seeks to explore the pedagogical possibility of this textual lack for understanding Lacan’s explication of the relation between anxiety and desire.
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Basu Thakur, G. (2020). Mind the Gap: Commentary on Session XXV. In: Basu Thakur, G., Dickstein, J. (eds) Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_21
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