Although Lacan's notion of "university discourse" circulates widely today, it is seldom used in its precise meaning (designating a specific "discourse," social link). As a rule, it functions as a ...

A commentator on one of my recent posts on discourse asked a question about the discourse analysis of capitalism. Lacan had something interesting to say about that — he remarked that the discourse of ...

Jacques Lacan, cited in “Capitalist Discourse, Subjectivity and Lacanian Psychoanalysis,” by Stijn Vanheule, Frontiers in Psychology, December 9, 2016, 8. 3 ...

Jacques Lacan’s theory of discourse is every bit as heuristically powerful as Michel Foucault’s, and in some respects more sophisticated and subtle, although the two theories are compatible. Broadly ...