Natalia Marin - Entrega Final Coloquio. Koinup: Your virtual life. Symbolic, real, imaginary. Symbolic, real, imaginary "Machines take over functions of the central nervous system, and no longer, as in the past, merely those of muscles. And with this differentiation – and not with steam engines and railroads – a clear division occurs between matter and information, the real and the symbolic" (Kittler, GFT, 16). "The symbolic," "the real," and "the imaginary" all have individual OED definitions, all relate to something significant in our daily sense of the world, all evoke meanings and references independent of each other.
We seek out (or avoid) the Real World; we have Imaginary Friends; we experience Symbolic Moments. However, if we’re talking about media, perception, and representation, we begin with the symbolic-real-imaginary triad of Jacques Lacan’s three psychoanalytic orders, developed during a series of lectures in the 1950’s. In the Lacanian arena, the symbolic-real-imaginary forms a trio of intrapsychic realms which comprise the various levels of psychic phenomena.
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