Psychoanalysis
◎ Drafts №7 | What I think Žižek is Saying about Belief & Knowledge
⌬ Lecture Notes №1 | Types of Theory & the Unconscious
What is The Real || 2
A few weeks back (when the newsletter was still CP), I started to write about
the register of the real, and I described four moments in Lacan’s work, where he
thinks/speaks/teaches about the real. I then tried to describe how the real was
approached in the first
The Symbolic || in RSI
Along with the imaginary, there is the symbolic, which is comprised of customs,
institutions, laws, mores, norms, practices, rituals, rules, traditions, and so
on of cultures and societies.
The symbolic is the non-natural world, or what we have constructed
(Incidentally, thinkers like Derrida have pointed out that what has been
The Imaginary || in RSI
Lacanian Mojo —The Imaginary (the body as it appears in a photo).
To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might
identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or
when they watch a video of themselves. When
The Imaginary (the body as it appears in a photo)
To understand the imaginary is to understand the way that a person might
identify with an image, such as the image they see when they look in a mirror or
when they watch a video of themselves. When a person sees this mirror/video
image, they might think or say,