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18discourse may seem to be freely and accidentally associated, it is governed by the regularity andspontaneity of the automaton.The movement of the signifier is structured by the psychoanalytics of the Tuché; thecirculation and recirculation of the sign is predicated upon the circulation of the subject in theSymbolic to object to abject. Here lies the riddle of the missed encounter: the impossibility of theReal is also its very condition of existence, that is, to have access to the Real there should be noassimilation and no symbolization. Insofar as the impossibility of the Real is central to theunderstanding of the proximity and over-proximity of the Realit is a precondition thatprescribes and proscribes the encounter as a missed or failed encounter. As Žižek argues:The subject is not only under a threat of separation, it IS the effect of separation (fromsubstance). Furthermore, insofar as a traumatic encounter generates anxiety, we shouldbear in mind that, for Lacan, in anxiety, what the subject is exposed to is precisely the lossof the loss itselfLacan here turns around Freud: anxiety is not the anxiety of separationfrom the object, but the anxiety of the objet (-cause of desire) getting too close to thesubject. This is why trauma belongs to the domain of the uncanny in the fundamentalambiguity of this term: what makes uncanny uncanny is its homeliness itself, that fact thatit is the rise-into-visibility of something too close to us. (“Descartes and the PosttraumaticSubject” 25)The ultimate complexity of the missed encounter lies in the infinite mises en scène of theencounter. If the proximity of the Real has dangers, if the encounter is predicated upon animpossibility it would perhaps be beneficial to analyze the concept of the Thing, which definesthis proximity or ex-timité to/of the Real.