The Lacanian Concept of Cut in Light of Lacan's Interactions with Maud Mannoni

This article sets out to shed light on the Lacanian concept of cut (introduced in 1961–1962): it refers to the symbolic (i.e., linguistic) operation which produces the object a and thereby enables separation, through which the subject emerges. To that effect, we show how this concept benefitted from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laure Razon, Olivier Putois, Alain Vanier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
cut
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02177/full