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==One==
The space of pure [[death drive]] without [[desire]], between [[symbolic]] death and actual death.
==Two==
The [[subject]] can die not once, but twice.
We will suffer a [[biological]] [[death]] in which our [[bodies]] will fail and eventually disintegrate.
This is [[death]] in the [[real]], of our [[material]] [[self]].
We can also suffer a [[symbolic]] [[death]].
This is not the [[death]] of our actual [[bodies]].
This [[death]] entails the collapse of the [[symbolic]] [[order]] and the destruction of our [[subject]] [[position]]s.
We can suffer a [[death]] in which we are [[excluded]] from the [[Symbolic]] and no longer [[exist]] for the [[Other]].
This can occur in [[psychosis]].
We still [[exist]] in the [[Real]] but not in the [[Symbolic]].
The gap between the two deaths, Žižek argues, can be filled either by manifestations of the [[monstrous]] or the [[beautiful]].
For example, in ''[[Hamlet]]'', the play by [[William Shakespeare]], [[Hamlet]]'s [[father]] is [[dead]] in the [[Real]].
However, he persists as a terrifying and [[monstrous]] [[apparition]] because he was [[murder]]ed and thereby cheated of the chance to settle his [[Symbolic]] debts.
Once that debt has been repaid, following [[Hamlet]]'s killing of his murderer, he is 'completely' [dead]].
Correspondingly, in ''[[Antigone]]'', the play by [[Sophocles]], [[Antigone]] suffers a [[Symbolic]] [[death]] before her [[Real]] [[death]] when she is [[excluded]] from the [[community]] for wanting to bury her traitorous brother.
This destruction of her [[social]] [[identity]] instils her character with a [[sublime]] [[beauty]].
Ironically, [[Antigone]] enters the domain [[between the two deaths]] "precisely in order to prevent her brother's second death: to give him a proper funeral that will secure his eternalization."<ref>{{TTS}} p.170</ref>
That is, she endures a [[Symbolic]] [[death]] in order that her brother, who has been refused proper burial rites, will not suffer a [[Symbolic]] [[death]] himself.
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