"What I would like to return to and point out is this forceful alliance between philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis, when it comes to the four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis [...] With the notable exception of the drive, which he mostly develops in the reading of Freud, the other three concepts are developed by Lacan with explicit reference to Philosophy. [...] For transference you have Plato [sic Symposium]. For repetition you have Aristotle, Tyche, Automaton and Kierkegaard and most prominently, most fascinatingly, for the unconscious you have Decartes and his 'cogito'."
From:
New Theoretical Directions in Psychoanalysis - Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Patricia Gherovici
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