'So, Dr Lacan, are women more susceptible to madness? ... Is man susceptible to hysteria?' In 'Deserve', part of Jorge León and Simone Aughterlony's triptych about the maid, the makers dig deep, very deep. They follow the intriguing line of the great debunkers in our history of thought: from Hegel's master-slave analysis through Marx and Freud to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Core to the piece, then, is his method of breaking apart the linguistic, symbo...
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