THE ‘REAL’ ABOUT REALITY

Abstract

The Lacanian understanding of reality, the Real (as mentioned in the abstract) does not push the narrative of the absolute truth lying beyond the world of appearances, the impossibility lying beyond the possibility. Rather what we learn is impossibility is only possible through possibility. One can realize limitations of their perception only through the very attempt of what appears impossible. Within Kant’s Copernicus turn, Kant tends to reject Plato’s idea of forms or inaugural dissertation, as he points out that there is nothing within the object, there is no aprodai information about the object that allows it to conform it to the intelligible world.