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(2013) Continental Philosophy Review 46 (2).
In this paper the question of the object in Freud's metapsychology is sketched out from an economical point of view, that is in terms of pleasure and displeasure. This allows for a reading of Pascal's wager that makes clear what interest Lacan had in discussing this one pensée at length in his Seminar on the Object of Psychoanalysis. The central issue in Lacan's reading concerns the object a as a stake the subject has lost.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11007-013-9255-z
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Hoens, D. (2013). You never know your luck: Lacan reads Pascal. Continental Philosophy Review 46 (2), pp. 241-249.
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