The "real" stands for what is neither symbolic nor imaginary.
It forms part of a subjects reality, however it is never truly known, it is mediated by the two orders of the Imaginary and the Symbolic, thus while it is present, the subject treats it as inherently Othered and alien. It is most notably discussed in Freudian theory as 'Das Ding'. This is furthered in Lacan who often cites these Uncanny objects as reminders of symbolic lack in the subjects identity formation.
Psychoanalytic registers |
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| The three registers | |
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| Symbolic: law and signification | |
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| Imaginary: image and identification | |
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| Real: enjoyment and encounter | |
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| Symptom and sinthome | |
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| Knotting and topology | |
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| See also: formalization | |
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Formalization and topology |
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| Mathemes and writing | |
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| Schemas and graphs | |
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| Discourses and social link | |
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| Surfaces | |
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| Knots and knotting | |
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| See also: registers | |
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| Cuts and operations | |
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Psychoanalytic concepts |
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| Registers and knotting | |
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| Subject and Otherness | |
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| Desire, lack, and object | |
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| Drive and jouissance | |
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| Language and the unconscious | |
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| Sexuation and law | |
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| Formation and identification | |
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| Defense and psychic mechanisms | |
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| Time, repetition, and trauma | |
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| Clinical structures and symptoms | |
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| Analytic technique and frame | |
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| Affect and anxiety | |
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| Discourses and social bond | |
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| Formalization and topology | |
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| Ethics and the act | |
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