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Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. (2006)
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Neill, C. (2006). Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. Gramma: journal of theory and criticism, 14, 61-70

In the sixth chapter of the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Lacan refers to the taoist Choang-tsu's well known parable of the dream butterfly. Choang-tsu poses the question of how, after waking from a dream of being a butterfly, he can t... Read More about Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy..