Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Knottings in the Predictive Model

This chapter introduces the Lacanian concepts of the Other and the fundamental fantasy, alongside the notion of shared generative models in the Free Energy Principle. This allows me to sketch how the real, imaginary, and symbolic registers are knotted in dynamic predictive processes across the brain’s different memory systems. I also develop how the Lacanian symptom can be situated in the brain as deeply automatized motoric predictions soldered to the innate contradictions of affective consciousness.