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Summary article - Essay Example â€Å"Was it not something of the similar order that took place in New York on September 11?† (p 15) The effects of the multi-national capitalism and the culture created by the Hollywood popular fantasies resulted in the actions to be seen as images entered and shattered in our social reality. To read the reality within the WTC attacks in the lights of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the people who are immersed in reality have turned to be â€Å"fully identifying oneself with the fantasy – namely, with the fantasy which structures the excess that resists our immersion in daily reality.† (p 17) The approach of Zizek points out the need for seeing things as they are rather than missing the roots in the fantasy-driven world or the â€Å"artificially constructed universe.† He wants the people to yield to the â€Å"irresistible urge to ‘return to the Real’, to regain firm ground in some ‘real reality.’†(p 19) The Real has a compelling image of nightmarish apparition which is compelled to enter our reality and â€Å"the compelling image of the collapse of the WTC was: as image, a semblance an effect’, which at the same time, delivered ‘the thing itself,’† not the fantasized version of the reality. The same psychoanalytic view of reality that â€Å"we should not mistake reality for fiction,† means that â€Å"we should discern which part of reality is ‘transfunctionalized’ through fantasy, so that, although it is part of reality, it is perceived in fictional mode.† (p 19) The Lacanian view that unlike the animals which can â€Å"deceive by presenting what is false as true† humans â€Å"deceive by presenting what is true as false.† (p 20) The reality behind the WTC attack has been presented and viewed in the same manner, making the real as fantasized notion. â€Å"Not only were the media bombarding us all the time with the talk about the terrorist t hreat; this threat was also obviously libidinally