From Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, by Slavoj Zizek
EVEN IF
"Even if reality is 'more real' than fantasy, it needs fantasy in order to retain its consistency: if we subtract fantasy, the fantasmatic frame, from reality, reality itself loses its consistency and disintegrates."
From Part III: Hegel Beyond Hegel, Chapter Seven, The Two Butterflies
