Term used by psychoanalysts, especially Lacanians, for the eruption into social life of impulses or phenomena which have been repressed from the symbolic order in the process of the formation of a master-signifier. The excluded element is not destroyed but returns in a form which is incomprehensible and terrifying. A "return of the Real" is a sudden eruption and interruption which spectacularly reveals the contingency of social relations and shatters fixed certainties.
For instance, Slavoj Zizek analysed September 11th as a "return of the Real": the repressed fundamentalist impulse which was the hidden outcome of the US's own activities produced an explosive and terrifying result which rocked people's identities and the existing political framework.
For instance, Slavoj Zizek analysed September 11th as a "return of the Real": the repressed fundamentalist impulse which was the hidden outcome of the US's own activities produced an explosive and terrifying result which rocked people's identities and the existing political framework.
A reworking of the return of the repressed.
Doesn't make as much sense outside Lacanian ontology, because the violence and negativity of the "return of the Real" are crucial to its use as a concept. One can reconfigure it to some extent if one suggests that the social order makes its own Real, so that the phrase "return" is simply figurative.
Doesn't make as much sense outside Lacanian ontology, because the violence and negativity of the "return of the Real" are crucial to its use as a concept. One can reconfigure it to some extent if one suggests that the social order makes its own Real, so that the phrase "return" is simply figurative.
by Andy May 07, 2004
variant of techies. get most of the shinyest toys to play with.
prefers the dark, reads under blue light for major parts of life.
uses lots of TLA's - DMX, 520's, P64...
but not as many as soundies
prefers the dark, reads under blue light for major parts of life.
uses lots of TLA's - DMX, 520's, P64...
but not as many as soundies
by andy February 13, 2005
by Andy October 06, 2004
An expensive university in Atlanta. No freedom of speech in this place. One wrong word and your already standing in front of the honor council. Totally infested with liberals.
by Andy April 06, 2005
someone who fucks orcs. Must exist, because there's half-orcs in The Return of the King, and where else do they come from? (I don't believe for a second all that nonsense about "Saruman's foul magics"...)
Would also make a very good term of abuse. I'll have to try it out some time (on someone smaller than me and/or who I can run away from quickly).
Would also make a very good term of abuse. I'll have to try it out some time (on someone smaller than me and/or who I can run away from quickly).
Tony Blair is an orc-fucker.
My sister would be an orc-fucker, but she doesn't have good enough taste.
My sister would be an orc-fucker, but she doesn't have good enough taste.
by Andy April 18, 2004
One of a species of large, apparently carniverous birds used by the army of Vassagonia in the fantasy world of Magnamund. An itikar is like a giant eagle or hawk, and is ridden saddled, like a horse. The birds are ferocious and hard to tame, and make fearsome adversaries in combat.
In Lone Wolf 5: Shadow on the Sand, Lone Wolf escapes from the zakhan's palace by riding on an itikar.
by Andy April 25, 2004
by Andy April 19, 2004