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Re:Book Review: A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoan... by cwillu on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:33AM (#31213361)
So it's a synonym for "common knowledge” in the technical sense distinguishing between “you know that I know that you know” and “everybody knows”?

edit: …or rather, that which exists _because_ of it being common knowledge?

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Re:Book Review: A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoan... by scarecrowbob on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:56PM (#31217367)
As I understand it, not so much.

More like "how we see ourselves through our assumptions about how other people see us."

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