
The Drive, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Importance of the Real
Before the symbolic, there was not the real. The question Lacan is trying to get at here is what was there first in a sense. What gets lost is its undivided status. When you are sexed, subject to the bipolarities of sex, you now have a relationship to death. And death is as real as it gets.
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