Do You Want Real Enchantment?

The real is this thing that makes our relationship to the world always off-kilter, right? And so we don't just operate in this straightforward way that everything is thrown off by the real. Lacan equates it to masochistic enjoyment and he does say the real is enjoyment at other points. We have to try to symbolize enjoyment after the fact, but it's this break within the symbolic structure. I think most people that think about enjoyment a lot think about the real because enjoyment is located at that point beyond or where symbolization doesn't cover things,.