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Imaginary

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You Can't Make the Imaginary Conscious

The whole point of the real is you can't just make it conscious but i think that imaginary there's nothing in it that's so disturbing that you couldn't make it conscious. The entire thing is propped up by this investment in the illusion of mastery over the image which cannot be sustained. Slavaway basically doesn't think about the imaginary at all right like for him yeah it's basically the symbolic there's ruptures within the symbolic that's where the real is and okay like the imaginary maybe plays a role but he he really don't think it's really a main concern of his at all which is an interesting contrast to what came before.

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