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31864 In Plato’s work we learn that art is a presentation, re-presentation of a similar or different reality.In other words, all art is a double and re-presentation is turning reality into two or multiple realities.For Aristotle, however, art is an imitation of lifean imitation that is in fact a re-creation of life inaction (mimesis and poesis).65 The Lacanian orders (or the Borromean circles of the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary)overlap but not merge. The Real precedes the infant’s entry into the Symbolic Orderthe linguisticrecognition. The Symbolic overwrites the Real and creates the Symbolic reality. Overwriting doesnot mean to completely erase the Real, because the Real does not exist (i.e., it precedes language). Inhis innovative exploration of the work of Lacan, Bruce Fink argues:In Lacan's terminology, existence is a product of language: language brings things intoexistence (makes them part of human reality), things which had no existence prior to beingciphered, symbolized, or put into words. The real, therefore, does not exist, since it precedeslanguage; Lacan re-serves a separate term for it, borrowed from Heidegger: it ‘ex-sists.’ Itexists outside of or apart from our reality. (25)Explaining the precedence of the Real, Fink contends:we need not think in strictly temporal terms: the real need not be understood as merely beforethe letter, in the sense of disappearing altogether once a child has assimilated language (as if,in any case, a child could ever assimilate all of language, or all at once). The real is perhapsbest understood as that which has not yet been symbolized, remains to be symbolized, or evenresists symbolization; and it may perfectly well exist "alongside" and in spite of a speaker'sconsiderable linguistic capabilities. (25; emphasis mine)