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323“sexual difference is the Real of antagonism/deadlock that the two positions, ‘masculine’ and‘feminine’ endeavour to symbolize, but can do so only by way of getting involved in their ownconsciousness” (The Plague of Fantasies 214).78 According to Deleuze, the event is closely linked to the sense. The sense of the event emerges fromthe gap between subjects and objects. Consequently, its indefiniteness resists interpretation, structure,and symbolization. The event’s temporality defies the linearity of past, present, and future. It inhabitsthe horizon of what just happened and what is about to happen. The temporality of the event is alsosupplanted by the impossibility of locating it. For more on the issue of the temporality of the event,See Deleuze’s The Logic of sense (Columbia UP, 1990).79 The il y a, for Levinas, much like Derrida’s objet a, works as the discontinuation of enjoyment. InExistence and Existents and Time and the Other, Levinas approaches the il y a through hisreading of Heidegger’s phenomenology. Something is happening, Levinas would argue. In fact, “theindeterminateness of this ‘something is happening’ is not the indeterminateness of a subject and doesnot refer to a substantive. Like the third person pronoun in the impersonal form of a verb, itdesignates not the uncertainly known author of the action, but the characteristic of this action whichsomehow has no author ” (Existence and Existents 52) . The il, translated in Lacanian parlance, is theThing that is associated with horror, the abject, the temporality of subjectivity.