Theory

3. Before him, we thought the author was alive and doing well
5. When what you hold is not real but a copy or imitation of it
7. In psychoanalysis, men can "have" this but women "are" this
8. If you feel you are being watched at all times, well, you are.
11. Where would we be in our understanding of signification without this Swiss linguist?
13. Reading as sleuths to uncover a text’s secret means that we are practising this type of hermeneutics
14. From gender to matcha, this term has expanded how we understand identity
15. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why is my reflection so much better than I am?

1. In misspelling “difference,” he provided a critical clue on how meaning functions
2. Even if we haven’t read Sophocles, Freud has taught us to recognise this complex
4. The kind of capital that reading books and getting an education can give you
6. Lacan theorised the “Imaginary” via the mirror stage and claimed that the “Real” cannot be thematised. The domain of language, however, is called this.
9. Turning around when a policeman hails you can indicate more than just a guilty conscience
10. Sometimes, the only way the male gaze can deal with castration anxiety is to turn the woman into this kind of object
12. Whether in chess or in language, we should look not just at single moves but how things change over time