Psychoanalyzing communication: Language, subjectivity, symbolization
In contradistinction to social scientific theories of communication, this dissertation poses the philosophical question of why humans communicate to begin with. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan (1966/2006), it is argued that human being communicates not merely due to a need to o...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2006
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3242339 |