Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine. The Four Lacanian Discourses or Turning Law Inside-Out. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2008.
Hegel favors the term Aufhebung because it paradoxically means both negation and preservation. Hegel is, indeed, a totalizing philosopher buthis totality is incomplete — there is a radical negativity at the heart of the totality. the whole is built around a hole.
the imaginary is an attempt to suppress the true nature of the symbolic and the real. Fantasy is defined as the imaginary proposition that the barred subject actually achieves a relationship with the object cause of her desire.
If I say that “Dick and Jane were exposed, when they were young children and in a repeated manner, to …” the listener does not know how to understand “exposed” until I finish the sentence with “harmful radiation,” “foreign languages,” or even “their uncle the exhibitionist” … The end of the sentence determines how the listener understands or “rereads” the beginning of the sentence; the end of the sentence fixes the meaning(s), putting an end to the sliding (without necessarily reducing multiple meanings to one single meaning) “At a young age, the children were exposed to …” (Bruce Fink, Reading Êcrits Closely 90, cited in Schroeder 136)