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The Impossible Real

Budju: Even mathematics has these points of impossibility within its structure, right? Like that's what Lacan is getting at. I think we can see it also in politics pretty clearly, right? The Copernican system was impossible until there were enough anomalies within the Aristotelian or Ptolemaic systems. And then all of a sudden the Copernican becomes possible. He says love always has this kind of impossibility attached to it and then when it happens, it didn't seem like it was possible. Budju: It's very clear for Budju that, like, your day, you know, he says this, it's probably about conditions or things that

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