"One who sets off in a boat on a small waterway feels himself to be totally in command, whereas on a large river or at sea one is more inclined to appeal to Heaven."-Jullien
Tuche'- The encounter with the real.
The real is beyond the automaton, the return, the coming back, the insistence of the signs by which we see ourselves governed by the pleasure principle. The Real is that which always lies behind the automaton.-Lacan
This person was on her way home from a group walk to benefit breast cancer research. For some reason she decided to walk along the train tracks and ended up stuck in this position for 30 minutes. The automated bridge control system that runs remotely from Tallahassee, Fl. had activated the raising of the bridge creating an encounter with the REAL.
She became the subject and soldier that Jullien speaks of "A soldier is brave and a subject loyal thanks not to the fine virtues they possess but simply because they have no option."
She began to draw a crowd of people. She had become a human ideogram, an automaton made through the systematic mechanism of the reality system. To the crowd, she was a mark, a stain to photograph, to many she became an object of desire=
She became a hero.
She became a criminal.
She became a star.
She became en Souffrance.
She became the Objet a.
When the bridge lowered, people rushed to participate in the spectacle, but the spectacle was a person, and the bridge sunk back, connecting to its tracks and no longer existing as a grid in the sky: it is invisible again.
"The height of the tree is irrelevant; what counts is the altitude of the mountain on which it is perched".
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