Between the two deaths

The space of pure death drive without desire, between symbolic death and actual death.

Lacan associates this space with an unconditional, insistent demand, like the demand from the ghost of Hamlet's father insisting that he be revenged. In popular culture, this position is often taken up by the living dead (ghosts, vampires, zombies, etc.), by, as Slavoj Zizek puts it, "the fantasy of a person who does not want to stay dead but returns again and again to pose a threat to the living."