Like many Americans, waiters make me uncomfortable. Their performance of servitude hypostasizes ontological difference, therefore symbolic castration, and as a neurotic, that bothers me. It didn't bother Lacan. He loved barking at waiters. Lacan understood that there is no love and desire without perversion. We can only meet other subjects on the terrain of their [...]
Indeed, Girard opened the door to them. After spending the 1950s as a junior academic in various US institutions, Girard became full Professor at John Hopkins University in 1961, publishing his first monograph Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (1961, translated as Deceit, Desire and the Novel in 1966). This work famously introduced Girard’s theory of [...]
In the 1960's, the Federal government entered the health care industry with the development of Medicare (insurance for the elderly and disabled) and Medicaid, a federal-state collaboration to help insure the needy. Initially rejected by physicians, the steady revenue stream from the federally insured patients helped support the rise of American physician incomes to the [...]
