Lacan’s Psychoanalysis and Meditation

It can be said that a groundbreaking change in the ontological perspective began with the rationalist worldview outlined in Descartes’ dictum, ‘cogito ergo sum’ (English: ‘I think. Therefore I am’). Through Descartes, we reached a turning point in the seventeenth century where the existing medieval religious worldview was transformed into a worldview centered on human reason.