sping itself as a known thinking entity. Simply put – the grasping of the mind to grasp itself.
The movie is an embodiment of this thought, where the audience is looking into the movie screen as a jumbled self reflection and is trying to figure out what is really going on, what is reality, what is imagined, and what is the timeline that brings everything in order. According to Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, a person's imaginary division of personality is suppose to try to "heal" the real division of the personality. Based on this idea Fred Madison's imaginary cannot "heal" his real. So the imaginary begins to creep up into the real and cause schizophrenic division. The division is doubly (but probably more) represented by Madison's perception of altered reality and the attempt to seek out and change his reality. This struggle to retain an accurate and discernable reality is centered on para
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