Freud Lacan
  • Modernism
  • Unconscious, bodily causes of behavior
  • Psychoanalysis :
    Reason (conflict of psyche with cultural forces)
  • Self’s ability to access the “truth”
  • Post-Modernism
  • Social environment, language
  • Post-structuralism:
    Desire (social environment as positive force, discord and fracture constitute psyche)
  • Questions notion of either "self" or "truth"