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The Borrowed Self: Lacan’s Prophecy of an Identity Hijacked by the ‘Other’
There is a uniquely modern vertigo in feeling like a stranger in your own life—a sense that the self you present to the world is a carefully constructed collage of external expectations, social scripts, and borrowed desires. You are not the author of your own story, but merely an actor reading lines written by an invisible director. This chilling sensation of inauthenticity, of being fundamentally lost, is not a personal failure but a structural inevitability of the human condition as diagnosed by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. He argued that our very identity is hijacked from birth…
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