ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Jargon

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: (3differentprofs)

Document Summary

Construction: formed by people in society, nurture not nature. Not physical construction, like a building, but rather metaphorically (something that is built up according to human design and custom; not given by nature) Reality: the way the world is built up by people; not given to us by nature; it is constructed in culture. The world as it makes sense to us. Most of reality does not come across to us without the filter of signs and language. It may not always be the same as what really exists (the real) Reality is what we can signify, it is the world that science can verify. The real precedes and exceeds reality jargon vs. ordinary language. In ordinary language, reality is what is real. In social science/humanities jargon, reality is how we understand the real. For the most part, reality seems pretty real, and we are well advised to live in it!