Elusive, Mysterious Realms of Experience

Lacan's Idea of the Real, H.P. Lovecraft, and the New Mysterians (Vol. 2; Issue 45)

We enlightened human beings, intoxicated by our alleged mastery of knowledge, actually harbor infinitesimal levels of understanding. As Kant (1788/2018) observed, we interpret reality—whatever that means—through our five sense organs as filtered by our central nervous systems. Who knows what things really look like? All categories, classifications, taxo…