Abstract
The meteoric change of global environment in today’s world can be understood at least in two contexts; symbolic and real , understanding it from the Lacanian point of view. The symbolic constructs a structure wherein human beings as subjects are subjectivized under a disguised hallucination of imagination . In addition, the real is that what the symbolic has lost in its very inauguration and therefore keeps desiring . When the symbolic comes to confront the real, i.e. when, for example, a global capitalistic structure faces a lurking nature which is now anti-posed against the symbolic itself due to its exploitive mentality of nature the subject becomes a paranoiac subject. Can a paranoiac subject exercise a real agency and thus recover her freedom without being a schizophrenic? In this paper, I want to discuss these issues from a psychoanalytic as well as philosophical point of view.
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- Freud Search this journal for Freud (opens in a new tab)
- Lacan Search this journal for Lacan (opens in a new tab)
- (Capitalistic) Symbolic-imaginary Structure Search this journal for (Capitalistic) Symbolic-imaginary Structure (opens in a new tab)
- Subject (ivization) Search this journal for Subject (ivization) (opens in a new tab)
- Real Nature Search this journal for Real Nature (opens in a new tab)
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