
“Out of fear of regressing into a naïve realism of a presupposed external reality that our symbolic frame cannot ever fully capture, Lacan thus proposes his own version of Wittgenstein’s motto “the limits of our language are the limits of our reality”: the fact that our symbolic space circulates around an elusive point impossible to grasp should not be reduced merely to a sign of our cognitive limitation, this impossibility must also hold for reality itself. The real is not just impossible for us to grasp, it is impossible in itself, it fully coincides in its own impossibility,”
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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
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