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Symbolic Order

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Is There a Coherence Between the Meaning That I Intention and the Signification of What I Say?

The way in which it's divorced from individual experience is really a thing that allows us to hold together. And I think that the liberal conception that I start out just as an isolated being is for Lacan completely wrong. There's this initial implication within the whole symbolic structure that everybody else is within. So there's no there's no initial like a first time outside then I and I think that's what's wrong with that version of imaginary then to symbolic then real, right? Because that says like first I start out outside and then I move make this move in.

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