“We Must Be Able to Get Used to the Real”

Philosophy & Rhetoric Jun 2020

“We Must Be Able to Get Used to the Real”

Jaco Barnard-Naudé University of the Free State

Abstract

ABSTRACT The names “COVID-19” and “Sars-CoV-2” signify an impoverished Symbolic Order attempting to come to terms with “a great disorder in the Real.” Our contemporary defense against the Real has proceeded by way of the insistence of the Imaginary, and at the same time, the Symbolic has become enslaved to this very same Imaginary. The article ends with a plea for a revitalized mode of signification—a correspondence—between the Real and the Symbolic.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2020-06-15
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0217
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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