"Therein consists the ant-Cartesian sting of the Lacanian logic of "not-all" (as opposed to Descartes' premise that the less perfect cannot act as the cause of what is more perfect, the premise which serves as the foundation for his proof of God's existence): the incomplete "causes" the complete, the Imperfect opens up the place subsequently filled out by the mirage of the Perfect."
Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative, p. 58.
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I asked Žižek after class once about the difference between his "dialectical materialism" and a "formalism of the difference." He patiently gave me an answer which I am still trying to understand. As best as I can make it out, the "parallax gap" is never there in anyone's experience. All we can do to discern it is to keep shifting perspectives: you either see the duck or the rabbit, but never both at the same time.
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