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The Unbearable Object: A Lacanian Critique of Heideggerian Anxiety

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First Reader Jennifer K. Uleman
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 Semester Spring 2022
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Uleman, Jennifer K.
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2022
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The aim of this paper is to critique Heidegger's account of anxiety (Angst) from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. This paper will argue that Heidegger lacks an adequate theory of desire and enjoyment and as a result he fails to properly account for a persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety that is exemplified in the experience of the uncanny (Unheimlich). Lacan's theory, by considering the radically Other maternal dimension (or mOther) is better positioned to offer a theory of anxiety that accounts for the persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety.
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