Any stable reality is built by repressing an unrepresentable traumatic Real
Evidence
For Lacan, the Real is what any ‘reality’ must suppress; indeed, reality constitutes itself through just this repression. The Real is an unrepresentable X, a traumatic void that can only be glimpsed in the fractures and inconsistencies in the field of apparent reality. So one strategy against capitalist realism could involve invoking the Real(s) underlying the reality that capitalism presents to us. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40
Categorization
- DEFINE: Explains the Lacanian Real vs. reality distinction, the chapter’s theoretical engine.
- XREF: connects to: Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 40; Unimaginable trauma is unrememberable precisely because it is repression itself — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 291; Psychoanalysis holds that a direct unmediated real is an impossibility — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 97 (+3 more)
Related
- Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real (similarity 0.93)
- The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it. (similarity 0.83)
- For Lacan the real only becomes graspable through symbolic inscription. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real
#corroborates(0.97) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 40 - Unimaginable trauma is unrememberable precisely because it is repression itself
#expands(0.82) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 291 - Psychoanalysis holds that a direct unmediated real is an impossibility
#corroborates(0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 97 - The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it.
#complicates(0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 518 - Trauma is an unfathomable puncturing of meaning lived as background
#expands(0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 730 - Lacan’s Thing smuggles the Real back into representation, restoring lack
#expands(0.74) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2853