The Real reasserts itself through attempts to flee it.

Evidence

Concealed behind the alluring ghosts of the hotel’s Imaginary which seduce Jack, the horrors that stalk the Overlook’s corridors belong to the Real. The Real is that which keeps repeating, that which re-asserts itself no matter how you seek to flee it (more horribly, it is that which re-asserts itself through the attempts to flee it: the fate of Oedipus). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 518

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Lacanian Real via repetition that operates through flight from it.
• XREF: Links to ch10’s death-drive and repetition material. — connects to: Reality constitutes itself by repressing an unrepresentable Real — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 40; Class antagonism is the unrepresentable Real beneath any realism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 505; Anti-system philosophy reproduces the reified system illusion it flees. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 850 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-system philosophy reproduces the reified system illusion it flees. #exemplifies (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 850
• Lacan’s Thing smuggles the Real back into representation, restoring lack #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2853
• Individual escape attempts and structural collapse are different orders of resistance #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1096