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| | + | The "[[real]]" stands for what is neither [[symbolic]] nor [[imaginary]]. |
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| − | The state of nature from which we have been forever severed by our entrance into language. Only as neo-natal children were we close to this state of nature, a state in which there is nothing but need. A baby needs and seeks to satisfy those needs with no sense for any separation between itself and the external world or the world of others. For this reason, Lacan sometimes represents this state of nature as a time of fullness or completeness that is subsequently lost through the entrance into language. The primordial animal need for copulation (for example, when animals are in heat) similarly corresponds to this state of nature. There is a need followed by a search for satisfaction. As far as humans are concerned, however, "the real is impossible," as Lacan was fond of saying. It is impossible in so far as we cannot express it in language because the very entrance into language marks our irrevocable separation from the real. Still, the real continues to exert its influence throughout our adult lives since it is the rock against which all our fantasies and linguistic structures ultimately fail. The real for example continues to erupt whenever we are made to acknowledge the materiality of our existence, an acknowledgement that is usually perceived as traumatic (since it threatens our very "reality"), although it also drives Lacan's sense of jouissance. The Real works in tension with the imaginary order and the symbolic order. See the Lacan module on the structure of the psyche.
| + | It forms part of a [[subjects]] [[reality]], however it is never truly known, it is mediated by the two [[orders]] of [[the Imaginary]] and [[the Symbolic]], thus while it is [[present]], the [[subject]] treats it as inherently Othered and [[alien]]. It is most notably discussed in [[Freudian]] [[theory]] as 'Das [[Ding]]'. This is furthered in [[Lacan]] who often cites these [[Uncanny]] [[objects]] as reminders of symbolic [[lack]] in the subjects [[identity]] [[formation]]. |
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| − | '''The Real''' is a term used by the psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]] in his theory of psychic structures. For Lacan, the Real is the irreducible surplus of the 'outside world' that resists being turned into language (as [[the Symbolic]]) or into spatial representation (as [[the Imaginary]]). This the First-Order Real.
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| − | In the later Lacan, a Second-Order Real is formulated which is not "outside of" or "underlying" the Symbolic Order but is in fact a structural feature of it -- its lack.
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| − | == [[Kid A In Alphabet Land]] ==
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| − | '''Kid A In Alphabet Land Rousts Another Reprobate Ruffian - The Rotten Real!'''
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| − | If It's Over You I Constantly Stumble, It's Only Because I've Already Struck You Down! But You Enjoy These Strokes During Our Encounters, Yes? Touché!
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| − | ''The Intrusion Of The Real Extrudes Reality Into Another Dimension''
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