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Lacan’s Borromean Knot

by on Feb.21, 2010, under psychoanalysis

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1. The Imaginary: the gaze, the fantasy, the mirror, ideal-ego and ego-ideal.

2. The Symbolic: signifiers, codes, language, law

3. The Real: the unsymbolisable, the gap in representation.

As Zizek argues, its best to take the three orders, not as one Lacanian system, but as part of a developing work -with the Real becoming the focus of interest in the later seminars.

See here for a real life illustration involving Zizek and me!


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Z and I: A True Story

by on Aug.12, 2009, under Chris, photography, psychoanalysis

 

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Zizek (Photo by CH)

Earlier this summer I was making my way home on the Piccadilly line, reading something by Zizek. I got off at Russell Square, thinking about some dialectical reversal or dirty joke of his I’d just read, and picturing the man himself, baggy T-shirt, beard etc.

 

Leaving the tube, I cut through the little lane that connects Bernard Street to Guilford street, looked up and saw: Zizek, in baggy T shirt etc, stood outside the President hotel, waving goodbye to someone in a car. I’d gone from reading, thinking about and now suddenly encountering him in the street.

So, Lacanians: we have the Symbolic (reading his stuff), the Imaginary (me picturing him as I’d seen him last on Youtube or at a conference), and then the encounter. If I understand it correctly the Real wasn’t the empirical Zizek stood in my street there, it was the disorientation/mild trauma  experienced in the disruption of the other modes of representation when I suddenly saw him, big and hairy, looming right in front of me.

jacques-lacan3More on Lacan’s Borromean knot here.


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