Desire for self-knowledge drives the symbolic even though complete knowledge would end it

Evidence

Who can deny that, in the construction of the subject’s history, the driving force of the symbolic is a desire for selfknowledge, even though full self-knowledge would mean an end to symbolicity? Why, in spite of so many hard lessons to the contrary—not the least from the vicissitudes of many cultural and gender inscriptions—do we still cling to the rotarian epistemology of advancing from the Imaginary to the Symbolic? — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1549

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Knowing aims to coincide with being yet is structured as not being it

Broader Connections

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