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Vahabbayani Posted 14 years ago
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perceptum?
What does perceptum mean?
e.g. These original objects were introjected prior to any awareness of difference. although they inscribe themselves as residue or traces, they are not perceptum, for they offer no specular image or alterity.
e.g. These original objects were introjected prior to any awareness of difference. although they inscribe themselves as residue or traces, they are not perceptum, for they offer no specular image or alterity.
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The word appears in the Shorter Oxford as a variant of "percept", "an object of perception". I think the Lacanians have adopted it straight from Latin, though, probably through Lacan's French, and have given it a specific meaning only they know about. You'd have to fish around in Lacan's stuff to have any hope of knowing exactly what it means to them, if they even know.
- The word appears in the Shorter Oxford as a variant of "percept", "an object of perception".
- I think the Lacanians have adopted it straight from Latin, though, probably through Lacan's French, and have given it a specific meaning only they know about.
- You'd have to fish around in Lacan's stuff to have any hope of knowing exactly what it means to them, if they even know.
- I think you can read "object of perception" for now, but there is a problem.
- They have used the singular where English would have the plural "percepta".
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The word appears in the Shorter Oxford as a variant of "percept", "an object of perception". I think the Lacanians have adopted it straight from Latin, though, probably through Lacan's French, and have given it a specific meaning only they know about. You'd have to fish around in Lacan's stuff to have any hope of knowing exactly what it means to them, if they even know. I think you can read
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