{"id":5735,"date":"2010-09-08T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2011-03-15T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:48:10","slug":"the-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/09\/08\/the-real\/","title":{"rendered":"the real"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zupancic, Alenka. “Psychoanalysis” Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies<\/em>. Ed. Constantin V.Boundas, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 457-468.\u00a0 Print<\/p>\n

the Real is not the truth of reality, or the reality without distortion, a ‘naked reality’; the Real is not beyond the reality<\/span><\/p>\n

the Real is nothing else but a fundamental, structural impasse to which reality gives this or that form.\u00a0 It is not a realm \u2014 Lacan defines it as a register.’<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we take away the reality, no Real will be left.\u00a0 The fact that reality as we experience it is always-already distorted (in the sense in which the great twentieth-century theme of ideology conceptualized this distortion, or else in the sense in which Lacan proclaimed that all reality is fantasmatic) does not mean that reality is a distortion of<\/em><\/strong> the Real.<\/p>\n

The distortions of reality (that is, different narratives that structure our symbolic universe and define the ‘roles’ that we are expected to assume, starting with ‘child,’ ‘woman,’ ‘man,’ ‘mother,’ ‘father’<\/span>) are different forms built to deal with the impasse of the real<\/span> that constantly haunts us from within<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

To say that this impasse is structural is to say that it ‘ex-sists’ as an irreducible surplus element of reality: as its inherent contradiction that may disappear from one place, yet only to reappear in the other. 463<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zupancic, Alenka. “Psychoanalysis” Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies. Ed. Constantin V.Boundas, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 457-468.\u00a0 Print the Real is not the truth of reality, or the reality without distortion, a ‘naked reality’; the Real is not beyond the reality the Real is nothing else but a fundamental, structural impasse to which reality … Continue reading “the real”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,24,15,41],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}