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Poredak Realnog u lakanovskoj psihoanalizi
The Real in the Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Author(s): Andrea Milanko
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: the Real; Symbolic order; psychosis; forclosure; structuralism; void

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses a highly debatable and problematic, yet a key psychoanalytic concept, the Real, and its relation to the Symbolic order. After examing principally two major approaches to the Real (from the perspective of subject and from the perspective of the Symbolic order), the influence of structuralism on Lacan’s later work is being analysed. Lacan’s later work is taken up by Žižek, who introduces an operative dimension of the Real and its political and ethical potential. The Real is finally taken as an empty void.

  • Issue Year: 31/2011
  • Issue No: 02/122
  • Page Range: 407-416
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian