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Tearing Through the Unfamiliar Discontinuities of the Self, Displacements of Space

Kokoromyti Evangelia, Dimitropoulou Christina

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This study, through an interdisciplinary investigation, re-examines subjective identity and its relation to the structures that constitute it, mapping the boundaries between the Real and Reality (Jacques Lacan), image and body, space and power.The first section explores the concept of the Real as a traumatic alterity that disrupts the symbolic coherence of the subject. Emphasis is placed on the way the Real is inscribed onto the body—as a field of uncanny materiality and lack—and on mortality as a limit experience.The second section analyzes the symbolic construction of Reality in modernity, focusing on the notion of the Ideal, the formation of desire, and the constitution of the social. Through the theories of hyperreality, the society of the spectacle, and visual surveillance, the text highlights how space functions as a mechanism of discipline and the shaping of subjectivity.Finally, the third section examines the notion of transgression as a gesture of subversion. It studies, on the one hand, the liminal body as a point of symbolic rupture, and on the other, space as a field of conflict and transformation in relation to structured reality, through radical architectural practices (Deconstruction, Situationist critique, etc.).The research thus arrives at a deconstruction of the false coherence of the individual, space, and normativity—opening up the possibility of existence at the point of collapse of dominant structures.

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