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2-the differential feature which cannot be pinned to some positive quality is what Lacancalls the unary trait le trait unaire: a point of symbolic identification to which clins the

real of the subject!

" in the network of intersubjective relations# everyone of us is identified with# pinneddown to a certain fantasy place in the other$s symbolic structure%!we can relate to other

people only in so far as they fit a space in our fantasy structure

-when a separation is achieved between the point of identification and the massive weiht

of our presence outside the symbolic%when we cease to act like placeholders of the ideal

for the other$s aze---the letter arries at its destination when we are no loner fillers of

the others fantasy# when the other opens his eyes and realizes that the real letter is not themessae we are supposed to carry but our bein itslf# the object that resists

symbolization! &the real kernel of our bein is the letter'can we connect with littoral()

also the letter always arrives can refer to becomin aware of the stain# of theunsymbolizable remainder that is always a part of every representation etc%

*+ a letter always arrives at its destination can also refer to the symbolic# the bi other#

which is always the receiver of any messae as soon as the subject e,ternalizes it!

**'also refers to continency%!the messae is for whomever receives it# whomeverhappens to be at the riht place at the riht time$ as if there was some secret destiny of

fate behind the continencies of life!

-.ate in psychoanalysis always asserts itself throuh small continent encounters%the

unconscious trauma repeats itself by means of some small continent bit of reality!/0

1mainary letter arrivesmisreconition3 1 reconize myself as the addressee# 1 see myselfin it/ymbolic letter arrivesthe concealed truths that emere 1 the blind spots and flawys of

the symbolic3 and also in the symbolic debt%

4eal letter arriveswhat meetin one$s fate mans 5we all die6! 7hen we encounterourseves# we encounter death'yet the lacanian real is death 89 life# and they do not

e,ist in some symbolic opposition but instead a real antaonism! Lacan says life is alien

to the symbolic# and the name for the stain of life within the symbolic is jouissance!

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god as all destructi!e fry and god as supreme blissafter we pass through the zero

point of the symbolic suicide what a moment ago was a whirlpool of rage sweeping

away all determinate existence changes miraculously into supreme bliss, as soon as

we renounce all symbolic ties. "nd the "ct in the #acanian sense is nothing but this

withdrawl by means of which we renounce renunciation itself$

44 such an encounter with the %eal is, with the abyss of absolute freedom takes

place only in the utmost intimacy of what some would call the mystic experience

"> the act as real transression of the symbolic limit does not put us in contact wth some

presymbolic life substance or harmony# but rather back into the abyss of the real out if

which symbolic reality emered!

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