Browsing: Fantasy

Drawing on Lacan’s theory of the divided subject, Žižek explains how master signifiers give ideological authority an appearance of coherence.

Liesler places a masked and an unmasked face within the same dense decorative field, transforming friendship into a symbolic relation among persona, intimacy, observation, vulnerability, and psychological distance.

The Zeuxis–Parrhasius problem of deceptive appearance becomes a point of departure for examining artificial intelligence, Hegelian–Lacanian subjectivity, language, symbolic performance, and ontological deception.

Jungian active imagination creates a dialogue between consciousness and unconscious imagery, transforming passive observation into psychological participation, response, and responsibility.

A conceptual representation of the divided subject, desire, lack, fantasy, jouissance, and the Borromean knot in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

A conceptual representation of jouissance as the dark excess linking desire, prohibition, bodily experience, fantasy, and the symptom.