A notoriously difficult text by this thinker has been called “the only text that avoids Aristotelianism” by Barbara Cassin, who wrote a book calling this thinker a “sophist.” Cassin and another disciple of this thinker distinguished sense and nonsense from “ab-sense” in a book titled for this thinker’s claim that “there’s no such thing as a sexual relationship.” This thinker argued that there are four basic discourses, called “the master,” “the university,” “the analyst,” and “the hysteric,” which he illustrated with one of his schematic “mathemes.” He paralleled Marx’s concept of surplus value with his concept of “surplus jouissance” (“zhwee-SAWNCE”), which he in turn used to define the objet petit a (“ob-ZHAY puh-TEE AH”). The Sainte-Anne Hospital hosted some of this thinker’s yearly seminars. For 10 points, name this French psychoanalyst who postulated the mirror stage. ■END■
ANSWER: Jacques Lacan [or Jacques Marie Émile Lacan]
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