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Jacques Lacan

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The Lacanian interpretation of the struggle for recognition is presented in terms of the symptomatic blockages afflicting the subject who desires recognition: in Lacan’s “dialectic of desire,” the subject is prevented from full participation in ethical life, but the principal origin of his or her misfortune is the symptom, not normative misrecognition.

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  1. Deakin University, Geelong, Australien

    Geoff Boucher

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  1. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Deutschland

    Ludwig Siep

  2. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Heikki Ikäheimo

  3. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Deutschland

    Michael Quante

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Boucher, G. (2021). Jacques Lacan. In: Siep, L., Ikäheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19558-8_40

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