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The Real
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In continental philosophy, the Real refers to reality in its unmediated form.[1] In Lacanian psychoanalysis, it is an "impossible" category because of its inconceivability and opposition to expression.[2][3]
- ^ Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.). The Clinical Lacan. Other Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-892746-05-4.
Editor's note: [...] The Real is reality in its unmediated form. It is what disrupts the subject's received notions about himself and the world around him [...] as a shattering enigma, because in order to make sense of it he or she will have to [...] find signifiers that can ensure its control.
- ^ Zupančič, Alenka (2000). Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan. Verso. pp. 235–237. ISBN 1-85984-218-6.
- ^ Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real". Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis. Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236. ISBN 9780823228744. JSTOR j.ctt13x0dc2.14.
The desire for an 'impossible' immortality ('impossible,' in the sense of ineradicably aporetic), he claims, 'is the real that governs our activities more than any other and it is psychoanalysis that designates it for us.'
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