Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable 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: The Lacanian Real/ reality distinction as Fisher’s central methodological lever against capitalist realism.
• XREF: The Real glimpsed in fractures parallels the Frankfurt claim that contradictions in culture expose systemic disorder. — connects to: The reality principle itself is ideological — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 39; Physical reality eventually punishes those who deny it — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 347; Human reality arises as a lack of an impossible self-totality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 362 (+10 more)

Related

• Any stable reality is built by repressing an unrepresentable traumatic Real (similarity 0.93)
• The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it. (similarity 0.84)
• For Lacan the real only becomes graspable through symbolic inscription. (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalist realism subordinates people to a reality that is infinitely plastic rather than solid. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Human reality arises as a lack of an impossible self-totality #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 362
• Reality is founded precisely by removing the remainder #corroborates (0.86) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 463
• The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it. #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 518
• Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory #qualifies (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403
• Lacan’s Thing smuggles the Real back into representation, restoring lack #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2853
• Class antagonism is the unrepresentable Real beneath any realism. #exemplifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 505
• Established reality structurally resists the logic of contradiction. #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 536