1 These traits will not surprise attentive readers of Slavoj Zizek’s collection, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, or the two volumes in the SIC series from Duke University Press, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and Cogito and the Unconscious, all of which feature significant contributions by Zupancic. Though they appear nowhere in her splendid first book, Ethics of the Real, these sentences neatly telescope the rigor, clarity, and good humor characteristic of Alenka Zupancic’s work. The Real happens precisely as the impossible. This is what is so traumatic, disturbing, shattering– or funny–about the Real. On the contrary, the whole point of the Lacanian concept of the Real is that the impossible happens. The point of Lacan’s identification of the Real with the impossible is not simply that the Real is some Thing that is impossible to happen. Emory of: Alenka Zupancic, Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan.
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