Lacan and Zizek

[Killborn]

I'm incapable of/have no real interest in understanding these two. Can I just get a crash course in their ideas, or just your opinions of them.

Ps. Help me with "the real"

[Dialectical Wizard]

In Žižek's interpretation of Hegel's dialectic, the three terms in which this is often summarized, are thesis / antithesis / synthesis, these correspond to the three orders of Lacan's terminology, as follows:

The real is the domain of the antithesis, in which contrasts exist;
the symbolic order is the domain of the thesis, because arrangement is applied in the chaos of the real
the imaginary order is the domain of the synthesis, the combination of thesis and antithesis.
It follows that, for Žižek that the synthesis only can exist in human desire and that it can never fully be realized in The (real world) which consists of opposites, rules with exceptions, imperfections which the subject fights by inserting them into the symbolic order, without them actually being 'solved' .