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'''The Real''' is a term used by the psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]] in his theory of psychic structures. For Lacan, the Real is the irreducible surplus of the 'outside world' that resists being turned into language (as [[the Symbolic]]) or into spatial representation (as [[the Imaginary]]). This the First-Order Real.
In the later Lacan, a Second-Order Real is formulated which is not "outside of" or "underlying" the Symbolic Order but is in fact a structural feature of it -- its lack.
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