Personally I may agree with labelling Lacan as an utterly corrupt
charlatan who wrote obscurantist nonsense purposefully, and seeing no
limit to how far he could push the envelope created a cult among
Lacan fans who repeat the same irrational stupidities quite at ease
in a world who becomes more and more pro-Lacanian and giving way to
other no less irrationalist nonsensical authors such as Matte Blanco
and Miller which do but mar the little advancement Bowlby's Theory
of Attachment had gained during the seventies and the eighties.

Chomsky is bright enough to grasp Lacan's irrationality and
corruption, bur he is not a psychoanalyst fully to appreciate how far
Lacan used Freud and De Saussure to concoct a decaying contraption
which amounts to nothing but piles of utterly void rhetoric
without intent or purpose beyond the Lacanian author's personal
interests. You say Chomsky's words are harsh? Lacan is one of the
worst consequences of Freud's irrationalism and obscuratism which
those of us who have adopted an empirical approach to psychiatry,
psychoanalysis and psychology cannot but deeply deplore.

A new society based on reciprocal altruism, solidarity and common
sense should be able to produce individuals to reject intellectual
monsters as Lacan.

Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Early Development
University of Buenos Aires

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