Kant's use of the term "intuition" was different than how we might normally think of it. By intuition we usually mean something like having been registered affectively in the body but unanalyzed or without conceptualization. We often intuit a situation as an affective whole before we have analyzed it rationally. However, Kant meant the synthesis of whatever is "before" our perception of the world that makes the world appear as if given in immediacy, even though this immediacy is given by the mediation of his a priori categories. Kantian intuition and phenomenological intention in general, are the largely unconscious processes of consciousness, or of how phenomena appear as the world to us by "filtering" the "noumenal" realm, or what Kant called the "things-in-themselves," through the physical laws often lumped together under the general groupings of quantity, quality, relation, and mode. This filter is not learned but given as the "transcendental subjectivity," or evolutionary interface, that allows us to learn about and construct ourselves and the world through the binary opposition of an internal self to an external other, or the world of phenomenal objectifications. The interface of the subjective screen is the natural laws, or at least those that are relevant to our instrumental interactions with the Universe, internalized as the categories by which the world appears to us.

The Lacanian Imaginary register does something similar because it is what makes the whole and complete objects of the phenomenological world that appear on our intentional screen. However, the perceptual or conceptual unity of a "natural" category according to the physical laws or of a virtual category according to the dictates of the concepts of a given Symbolic are projected into the noumenal realm in the Imaginary register, this unification covers over a fundamental lack of oneness constitutive of the "inconsistent multiplicity" of whatever is "before" this imaginary projection, which is how the fundamental binary opposition of indeterminacy, or space, and the determinations of the physical laws on matter / energy "synthesize" whatever there is, or the Universe as a whole. However, there is no complete synthesis, or determination, of being because being isn't a one, except in the imaginary "take as one" function of Set Theory. The Lacanian Real is the inconsistent multiplicity, or the deferential background, of any possible foregrounding of an objective whole in the Imaginary register. The Real exposes that both the wholes of the Kantian intuition as well as the Lacanian Imaginary and the signifiers of the Symbolic are incomplete, which means that the noumenal is the differential background that is always breaking through and warping the foregrounded phenomenal "world." Joan Copjec calls the warped phenomenal objects of the subjective intuition "object-small-a's" because they are the incomplete "wholes" that Lacan outlined as his "abject-petite-a."

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Kant's Intuition and the Lacan's Imaginary