
Learning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowan
Rev Left Radio
What Is the Difference Between the Symbolic and the Real?
The symbolic is the field of signification in which we are bathed all the time. The real is, for on the impossible. So there's something that seems like it couldn't happen, it's structuraly not possible, and then it happens. There's a certain kind of status quo structure that is impossible but can still be changed. Everything is minaged when you're talking to someone who doesn't know about your life or anything else they've ever been through.
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