Blank Space - Lacan meets Taylor Swift
Psychoanalysis of the Moleskine notebook
Era 5 - 1989
You’ve been listening to this song for years.
And still, you don’t see the whole picture.
You think it’s about toxic relationships.
That’s convenient.
What if that wasn’t all?
What if there was something else?
Blank Space is not just about love gone wrong.
It’s about desire as a script
you keep repeating.
Jacques Lacan knew it.
Taylor Swift encoded it.
Maybe somewhere else,
Freud would call it
another fortnight.
This is not a theory.
It’s a structure.
It’s a pattern.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Quick 6-minute overview (05:24 minutes)
Full Deep Dive analysis (46:33 minutes)
For more information... you'll find in our book:
• Bridge
• Concept Image
• Biography
• Quick cheat sheet
• Dinner dialogue
• Song Deconstruction
• Letter from Philosopher
• Professor Merrywell’s analysis
• Gaston Blunder’s no-holds-barred summary
• Who wants to win nothing at all ?
• Unlikely taxi ride
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