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Why is Lacan rarely taught in clinical psychology undergraduate degrees? Because he was hostile to "normative" adjustment. Where cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) wants to manage symptoms, Lacanian analysis wants to articulate the truth of desire. Where psychiatry wants to medicate the subject, Lacan wants to listen to the puns, slips, and jokes that leak from the unconscious.

Julian stood up and walked over to the window, looking out at the city lights below. "Lacan said that the unconscious is structured like a language. We think we’re speaking our own thoughts, but really, we’re just reciting a script we didn't write. We’re caught in the Symbolic Order. The rules, the laws, the words—we don’t own them. They own us." Why is Lacan rarely taught in clinical psychology

You aren't a self-contained unit. You are a "split subject," constantly negotiating between your private images of yourself (the Imaginary) and the social world (the Symbolic). 🔍 Choose Your Concept Where psychiatry wants to medicate the subject, Lacan