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The Real

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Is There a Link Between the Real and the Symbolic?

Soren Kierkegaard had these three categories of what he called the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious. They correspond almost precisely. The real is within this structure that is a point of a break, a fissure. So when Abraham gets the call to murder Isaac from God to sacrifice his son, that's an act in the real,. He calls it religious because it's a suspension of the symbolic slash ethical realm - even though he doesn't know it's this impossible thing.

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