Lacanian Ink 7

Stuart Schneiderman introduces a hero who evidences a major mind-body problem: his mind, detaching from the body, is in turn split. This skirmish brings up the figures of the detective and the criminal, set against each other, thus making a moral quest; now the problem affects the social group, now it structures the body politic. Schneiderman's "mind containing the wisdom of ages" meets Slavoj Zizek's "casual chain of reasons provided by knowledge."