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The Real

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The Real Is What Resists Symbolization

The real is the point at which there's a hiccup in the symbolic structure. I like to think of the movie Matrix when they experience deja vu. That means that someone's messing with the matrix. And so that little hiccup when you see the black cat cross your path twice, like thatlittle hiccup within social reality, which is informed and structured by the symbolic,. Like that hiccup is the real.

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