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Limits Enable Social Coherence
- The symbolic both orients a terrain and fixes limits that make action possible within it.
- Limits paradoxically create the space for meaningful social interaction and coherence.
You Are Spoken By The Symbolic
- The symbolic determines the signification of what you say regardless of your private intention.
- Your personal meaning is imaginary; social signification is structured by the symbolic order.
Images Hide The Absences That Bind
- The imaginary makes us focus on images and misses the absences that hold symbolic structures together.
- We perceive a fence as metal rather than seeing the gaps that constitute its function.