Is “the Reagan Imaginary” a thing in and of itself?
In a Lacanian sense, could we posit the Reagan Imaginary as a path toward a Reagan Ego via a mirror stage? We would then need to identify a Real and a Symbolic order.
Alternately, the Sartrean concept of The Imaginary could be useful: “I will call the different immediate modes of apprehension of the real as a world ‘situations’. We can then say that the essential condition for a consciousness to imagine is that it be ‘situated in the world’ or more briefly that it ‘be-in-the-world’. It is the situation-in-the-world, grasped as a concrete and individual reality of consciousness, that is the motivation for the constitution of any irreal object whatever and the nature of that irreal object is circumscribed by this motivation. Thus the situation of consciousness must appear not as a pure and abstract condition of possibility for all of the imaginary, but as the concrete and precise motivation for the appearance of a certain particular imaginary.”
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