aphanisis

is the self-obliteration of the subject. When a subject comes too close to the fantasmatic kernel of their being, the subject loses his/her symbolic consistency and disintegrates.

It is never possible for me to fully assume (in the sense of symbolic integration) the fantasmatic kernel of my being: when I approach it too much, when I come too close to it, what occurs is what Lacan calls aphanisis (the self-obliteration) of the subject: the subject loses his/her symbolic consistency, it disintegrates. (zizek 'how to read lacan 46-7)

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aphanisis