Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Lacan and reality

According to Lacan the subject is the discourse of the other. We are able to define ourselves based on the system we live in. We see differences in the things around us and form our own perceptions of reality based on these perceptions. We become aware of the world in terms of symbolized and symbol or as lacan described imaginary and symbolic. Those that do not fall into these categories are known as the real. Subjectivity can only be attained once the subject has navigated through the symbloic and imaginary. In the instance of webkinz, and the story about the dead easter doll. The child understood the doll as a representation of the internet Easter that she registered online. The doll was imaginary and symbolic of the real. In the girls loss Easter was not lost, the soul of easter was contained online not in the doll.

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