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is an intermediary realm of an imaginary illness created by the analysis to serve as a bridge between the unsurpassables gulf lying between some psychological disturbance and mental health.

The transference thus creates an intermediate region between illness and real life through which the transition from the one to the other is made. The new condition has taken over all the features of the illness... but it represents an artificial illness which is at every point accessible to our intervention. It is a piece of real experience, but one which has been made possible by especially favourable conditions, and it is of a provisional nature. (Freud 'remembering' 'complete' : 2505)

is important precisely when it doesn't carry any meaning, not when it is pregnant with meaning. It's not the 'that's it' but rather the 'that's not it' moment.

When the space of a lapsus no longer carries any meaning (or interpretation), only then is one sure that one is in the unconscious. One knows.' (vii) Thus even though he is stressing another point, a gap in meaning, he is also trying to focus on the times one is led to say, 'that's it.' Lacan presents that moment as precisely the one in ordinary discourse when we would say, 'that's not it.' In analytic experience something is inverted, and we say, ''that's it' when a miss or a failure occurs. That is what Lacan calls the subject. He tries to present the unconscious as something that is both a modality of nothingness and a modality of being. It is a strange kind of being that appears when it ought not to: precisely when a strange intention is being realized. (Miller in 'fink' 1995 : 10)

is the fact that subject can never fully identify with his symbolic mask.

Because of this gap, the subject cannot ever fully and immediately identify with his symbolic mask or title... the subject's questioning of his symbolic title is what hysteria [4] is about: 'Why am I what you're saying that I am'' Or, to quote Shakespeare's Juliet: 'Why am I that name'' (Zizek 2006a .pdf)

, in music, is called a rest; in conversation a pause; in logic a flaw.

The gap in music is called a rest; in conversation a pause; in logic a flaw.

is a fundamental structure of the world --- There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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