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Thanks for your comment, Henry Arthur. Yes, that example is designed to illustrate Lacan's opening account of psychosis in S3, specifically the phenomenological / experiential effects of foreclosure -- and more specifically still, the way that what's refused at the level of the symbolic can and often does reappear in the imaginary-real. And yes, it's totally designed to pile up and spill over as it goes -- ex-aggerare galore! If you'd like to offer a different, more clinically focused example of what Lacan is discussing here, I think that would be great -- and super helpful!

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This is not a very clinically experience near description of psychosis and hallucination. Regarding the car crash and jumping in bushes, is the purpose to give an exaggerated example to make the theory more clear?

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