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Lacan's own notoriously sybilline style, a language of the unconscious all in itself

Auto-eroticism must thus be distinguished from what Freud will call 'narcissism', a state in which one's body or ego as a whole is 'cathected', or taken as an object of desire.

recommend various brands of portentous mysticism as the solution to human ills

the saturation of the reading public by a 'mass', profit-hungry, anodyne culture

Language is Barthes's theme from beginning to end, and in particular the Saussurean insight that the sign is always a matter of historical and cultural convention.