The objective in Lacan includes the symbolic Other as a lacking structure, the pre-symbolic real which escapes this Other and the symbolic and fantasmatic ways through which we are compensated for this lack and attempt to repress it, to make it bearable. Only thus is social reality constructedas an attempt to master the real through symbolisation.
On the one hand, acknowledging the symbolic and fantasmatic dimensions of this and every reality disrupts essentialist objectivism while, on the other hand, recognising, within the objective level, the trace of an unrepresentable kernel of the extra-discursive real disrupts constructionist objectivism.
To return to our example, it is now possible to identify two different natures: nature as reality, as a social construction, and nature as real, as that which is always located outside the field of construction and has the ability to dislocate it by revealing its limits.
When we encounter the real of nature … when what was excluded from our symbolisations of reality is resurfacing, then our constructions are dislocated. The real dislocates social objectivity. 69