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How is Lacan Hegelian?

Žižek And So On

CHAPTER

The Dialectical Process of Being

Vuejack shows how at the beginning of logic, Hegel argues that being and nothing are the same. They're differentiated by a shift in perspective where being becomes nothing and nothing becomes being conceptually. Vuejack: The real is the almost nothing which sustains the gap that separates a thing from itself. And then there's Lacan's concept of the barred other - an empty knowledge or avoid that signifies the limits of knowledge.

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