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"[[gap]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[béance]]'')
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The function of the [[imaginary]] is precisely to fill this [[gap]], thus covering over the [[subject]]'s [[division]] and presenting an [[imagianryimaginary]] sense of unity and wholeness.
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[[Lacan]] also uses the term "[[gap|dehiscence]]" in a way that makes it practically synonymous, in his [[discourse]], with the term "gap".
[[gap|Dehiscence]] is a botanical term which designates the bursting open of mature seed-pots; [[Lacan]] uses the term to refer to the [[split]] which is constitutive of the [[subject]]: there is "a vital dehiscence that is constitutive of man."<ref>{{E}} p.21</ref>
This [[split]] is also the [[division]] between [[culture]] and [[nature]] which means that [[man]]'s relation to the latter "is altered by a certain dehiscence at the heart of the organism, a primordial Discord."<ref>{{E}} p.4</ref>
