
Imaginary
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I Think It's a Rich Reward to Think About the Imaginary
The imaginary register was successfully toxified by a lot of people and i think um there probably is this like knee jerk that like if i mention imaginary people will see that. When when one abandons the imaginary register you kind of lose out on those rewards. Lacon formulated this idea of the imaginary in the face of this philosophical moment in france where phenomenology was focused totally on how we perceived so maris mohloponte was obsessed with our perceptual universe he thinks that is the key to our subjectivity lacon was very critical of that but sart too it's how the visual field functions for sart that really helps to form us as subjects.
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