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==External / internal==
The term 'the [[tealreal]]' seems to imply a simplistic notion of an objective, external reality, a material substrate which exists in itself, independently of any observer.
such a 'naive' view of the [[Real]] is subverted by the fact that the [[Real]] also includes such things as hallucinations and traumatic dreams.
This ambiguity reflects the ambiguity inherent in Freud's own use of the two German terms for reality (Wirklichkeit and Realit‰t) and the distinction Freud draws between material reality and psychical reality.<ref>Freud, 1900a: SE V, 620</ref>
the [[Real]] is placed firmly on the side of the unknowable and unassimilable, while 'reality' denotes subjective representations which are a product of [[Symbolic]] and [[Imaginary]] articulations (Freud's 'psychical reality').
==Real and Materiality==
