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10:44

(In »The free and open Internet versus the ecological apocalypse«)

It is only through something important being eliminated from the fantasy of reality that the real can break through and remind us of reality as a false fantasy and thereby awaken utopianism within us. However, it is important not to try to annihilate the symptom. The symptom is namely the best tool within socioanalysis for reaching the real behind the contemporary façade and understanding its relation to the current fantasy of reality. We trace the symptom by analysing the numerous microscopic breakthroughs in fantasy that the real does in everyday life in the form of our sinthomes, the small, bizarre and apparently illogical thoughts, the words and the deeds that suddenly disturb the predictable pattern in our everyday lives. The sinthome is the symbol of the symptom. Without access to and an understanding of the symptom, we can never understand our era. And nor can we generate our own religio-political pathos.