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The Real in the Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Andrea Milanko orcid.org/0000-0003-3943-7771 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper discusses a highly debatable and problematic, yet a key psychoanalytic concept, the Real, and its relation to the Symbolic order. After examing principally two major approaches to the Real (from the perspective of subject and from the perspective of the Symbolic order), the influence of structuralism on Lacan’s later work is being analysed. Lacan’s later work is taken up by Žižek, who introduces an operative dimension of the Real and its political and ethical potential. The Real is finally taken as an empty void.

Keywords

the Real; Symbolic order; psychosis; forclosure; structuralism; void

Hrčak ID:

72769

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72769

Publication date:

8.9.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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