The Lacanian Real (Slavoj Zizek’s “The Antagonism is the Real”)

Zizek explains that, although you can never quite put your finger on the Real by accurately representing it with symbols (because it is a void-like essence that defies objectification), it paradoxically “exercises a certain structural causality, it can produce a series of effects in the symbolic reality of subjects” (Zizek, 2019, p. 183). As such, the antagonism between the obscurity of Lacan’s object petit a and jouissance becomes the Real, the fundamental essence of reality.
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