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2In fact, the history of Western thought begins, not bythinking what is most thought-provoking, but by letting itremain forgotten. Western thought thus begins with anomission, perhaps even a failure. So it seems, as long as weregard oblivion only as a deficiency, something negative.Besides, we do not get on the right course here if we passover an essential distinction. The beginning of Westernthought is not the same as its origin. The beginning is,rather, the veil that conceals the originindeed anunavoidable veil. If that is the situation, then oblivionshows itself in a different light. The origin keeps itselfconcealed in the beginning. (Heidegger, What is CalledThinking 156)Is not the dream essentially, one might say, an act ofhomage to the missed reality—the reality that can nolonger produce itself except by repeating itself endlessly, insome never attained awakening? What encounter can therebe henceforth with that forever inert being—even nowbeing devoured by the flames—if not the encounter thatoccurs precisely at the moment when, by accident, as if bychance, the flames come to meet him? Where is the realityin this accident, if not that it repeats something actuallymore fatal by means of reality, a reality in which the personwho was supposed to be watching over the body stillremains asleep, even when the father re-emerges afterhaving woken up? (Lacan, The Four FundamentalConcepts of Psychoanalysis 58)