The Sublime Object fails to deploy the complex interconnections within the triad Real–Imaginary–Symbolic: the entire triad is reflected within each of its three elements. […] The Real is thus, in effect, all three dimensions at the same time: the abyssal vortex which ruins every consistent structure; the mathematized consistent structure of reality; the fragile pure appearance. And in a strictly homologous way, there are three modalities of the Symbolic (the real – the signifier reduced to a senseless formula; the imaginary – the Jungian “symbols”; and the symbolic – speech, meaningful language); and three modalities of the Imaginary (the real – fantasy, which is precisely an imaginary scenario occupying the place of the Real; the imaginary – image as such in its fundamental function of a decoy; and the symbolic – again, the Jungian “symbols” or New Age archetypes).
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