The Real Is Wrapped Up in All This

Lacan: In the field of language that you will find your identity. The real bites back. It is incredibly good at avoiding reduction. Little A is captured by the bar that divides the subject. But remember, this bar is irreducible because if you were to make it go away, you would no longer have a split subject where need and demand have to be dialectically oriented. You'd have some weird thing that would not be the same subject of language. I dare say you'd probably have somebody on the verge of psychosis.