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cord-269197-o9xb30vx	Osserman, Jordan	Waiting for other people: a psychoanalytic interpretation of the time for action	2020-06-10		.txt	text/plain	4171	231	58	Similarly, when coronavirus forces us to confront the brute fact of the lack in the Other at the socio-political level, we have the opportunity to discover a space for acting rather than continuing symptomatic behaviour that increasingly fails to work. From Boris Johnson boasting that he was shaking hands with COVID-19 patients before contracting the virus (The Guardian, 2020); to the government denying that it promoted 'herd immunity' (Walker, 2020) ; to cabinet ministers openly contradicting WHO guidance in order to obscure the government's failure to procure adequate testing, hospital equipment, and PPE (ITV News, 2020) -it has become clear that there no longer exists a stable authority upon whose pronouncements we can rely (see especially recent exposes in the Guardian [Conn et al., 2020] and Sunday Times [Calvert et al., 2020] ). In both cases, however, different kinds of suspended time produce an opportunity for the subject to consider her own agency in relation to the lack in the big Other.	./cache/cord-269197-o9xb30vx.txt	./txt/cord-269197-o9xb30vx.txt