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The Thing Never Speaks for Itself: Lacan and the Pedagogical Politics of Clarity

Douglas Sadao Aoki
Harvard Educational Review September 2000, 70 (3) 347-370; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.70.3.83729226065nxq27
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