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The phrase "[[zone between-two-deaths]]" (''[[l'espace de l'entre-deux-morts]]'') designates "the zone in which tragedy is played out."<ref>{{S8}} p. 120</ref>
===Philosophical Death=======Hegel and Heidegger====
[[Death]] plays an important role in the philosophical systems of [[Hegel]] and [[Heidegger]], and [[Lacan]] draws on both of these in his theorisation of the role of [[death]] in [[psychoanalysis]].
===="Absolute Master"====From [[Hegel]] (via [[Kojève]]), [[Lacan]] takes the idea that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] ''[[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]]'', trans. James H. Nichols Jr., New York and London: Basic Books, 1969. [1933-39] p. 21</ref> [[Death]] plays a crucial part in the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], since the [[master]] only affirms himself for others by means of a [[desire]] for [[death]].<ref>{{E}} p. 105</ref>
==Psychoanalytic Death==