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Standing from left to right:
Jacques Lacan, Cecile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Luoise Leiris, Zanie de Campan, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir.Sitting from left to right:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier.This is a picture taken by Brassaï in 1944 at the opening of Picasso’s play, “Desire Caught by the Tail.”
But the Lacanian perspective is precisely the opposite. Against the usual prohibition that symbolic fiction should not be confused with, or mistaken for, reality, the central insight of Lacan is that the Real should not be mistaken for symbolic fiction. That is to say, the true philosophical art…