He told Noam Chomsky that "we think we think with our brains, but personally I think with my feet," and "I've seen enough electroencephalograms to know there's not the slightest trace of a thought in the brain."
He told Noam Chomsky that "we think we think with our brains, but personally I think with my feet," and "I've seen enough electroencephalograms to know there's not the slightest trace of a thought in the brain." Endorsed in a Louis Althusser article, he believed that the ego is a part of the unconscious, and that the goal of analysis is to decenter self. His theory of development includes the unachievable real stage, and the symbolic and mirror stages, reinterpreting Freud. For 10 points, name this eccentric French psychoanalyst whose Ecrits emphasized the language of the unconscious.
He told Noam Chomsky that "we think we think with our brains, but personally I think with my feet," and "I've seen enough electroencephalograms to know there's not the slightest trace of a thought in the brain."
Jacques {Lacan}