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Fictions of the Real
In Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 180–222 (2008)
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fictions of the real law and desire ‐ both have an iron necessity about them to stay faithful to one's desire ‐ to involve a kind of preternatural mulishness or monomania Shylock ‐ engaged in a Hegelian life‐and‐death struggle for recognition from Venetian governing caste to enter the symbolic order or establish a relationship to the Other is to exchange flesh for sign Shylock discredits a symbolic ethics ‐ his fanatical fidelity to the symbolic order to be merciful for Judaeo‐Christian doctrine ‐ is to share the life of God Shakespeare returns to question of excess versus equity ‐ Real versus the symbolic Shakespeare's alertness to affinities between trade and desire
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