Magical Thinking
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.244
**13** > <span id="page-236-0"></span>**The Training of Analysts to Come**
Theoretical move: Johnston argues that the Lacanian Real functions as an Anstoss — simultaneously a condition of impossibility and of possibility for psychoanalysis — because the subject perpetually slips away from the Symbolic's concatenations of signifiers, making the "impossible profession" of analysis both structurally necessary and interminably generative.
Lacan, in paragraph six of this section, is using this phrase in a very precise sense, namely, as designating rationally/epistemologically unjustifable beliefs about causal relations between certain entities and events.