ARTICOLI / 8 / Felice Cimatti /
In the Seminar XI. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964), Jacques Lacan switched from the previous exclusive attention to language toward a ‘philosophy’ more and more centered about the primacy of the Real. In particular, in March 4th, 1964 lesson, Lacan presents his famous anti-humanistic example of the ‘look’ of a “sardine can”. In this paper, I will try to show how Baudrillard late insistence on the subject less object derives from such a Lacanian ‘realistic turn’.
