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Absence

The [[symbolic]] [[order]] is characterized by the fundamental binary opposition between absence and presence.<ref>(S4, 67-8)</ref> In the symbolic order “nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of absence.”<ref>(Ec, 392)</ref> This is a basic difference between the symbolic and the [[real]]; 'There is no absence in the real. There is only absence if you suggest that there may be a presence there where there isn't one.”<ref>(S2, 313)</ref> (see [[Privation]]).