
How is Lacan Hegelian?
Žižek And So On
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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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