Thank you for your reply. I do understand where you are coming from (although my reading is more circumscribed to psychoanalysis itself) but I think our views d

Thank you for your reply. I do understand where you are coming from (although my reading is more circumscribed to psychoanalysis itself) but I think our views diverge. I don't think the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis is based in true empiricism (ie the scientific method), so what we are left with is essentially a lot of self referential frameworks that ultimately did not lead us anywhere, and it was built upon fraud. The psychoanalytic conception of language did not help us treat any mental disorder and likely never will. So throwing this purely conceptual work away is thus very easy for someone like me - in fact, we largely already have. I cannot imagine that anyone will read Lacan in even 100 years from now, but I do think we will increasingly develop a computational understanding of language that will stand the test of time.