— or, getting to the point without getting to the point

(2024) | Series of photographs

‘Classical psychology teaches that the stuff of experience is composed of the real and the unreal, and that men are tormented by the unreal in the real. Were this the case, hoping to rid themselves of it would be utterly futile, for the good reason that the Freudian conquest teaches us that the disturbing thing is that, in the unreal, it’s the real that torments them.’
Jacques Lacan, Seminar X (Anxiety)