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Lovecraft and his semantic tentacles immediately come to mind. Indescribable, ineffable, unimaginable, Lovecraftian monsters appear, on the surface, as a perfect placeholder for Lacanian Real. Following this model (shallow/ depth), exemplified by Lacan’s seminar on «The Purloined Lette», «The Call of Cthulhu» has been often used as a parable for the Real. This text argues that Cthulhu cannot represent the real, at least, not anymore. It has become exhausted as a signifier, overrepresented in contemporary pop culture. In its stead, Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, like the Real, cannot be pinned down due to its very nature. The Crawling Chaos or the God of a Thousand Faces travels in the same way as the signifier does: on one side its shape is permanently changing (Y-axis) but, at the sametime, it crawls along the x-axis.  \nkeyWords: Lovecraft; postmodernism; psychoanalysis; speculative fiction; weird fiction.  \nR  \nHei! Aa-shanta ’nygh! You are off! Send back earth’s gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms.  \nFarewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos!  \nThe Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath  \nFrom the entrails of a dog-eared stack of pulp magazines to the Parisian stage of the famous seminars, Lovecraft and Lacan appear at first glance to belong to opposite poles of academic labor. In the depths of the ocean or absorbed by an opaque cosmic cloud, H. P. Lovecraft has been, for the most part, a rightfully rotten and unsavory morsel for academia: a genre author with an embittered character more horrifying1 than his cosmic terror; reasons abound to shun one of the fathers of contemporary science fiction. In recent years, nonetheless, the threads of academic investigation have staged a close encounter with Lovecraft’s creations, producing specialists, and abundant work on an author shunned as part of genre canon,2 Houellebecq, Boris Noys, and Mark Fischer are but a fraction of the names that have engaged with the author and his work in a serious fashion.  \nEven so, the shadow of the author and his horrible history seems to always be looming and not a single fruit can be taken from the eldritch tree without a second thought. It is no wonder that Donna Haraway in Staying with the Trouble, describes the ushering in of the Chthuluscene;3 a new era where the non-human, the «tentacular», and «diférrance» reign, whilst deny-  \n1 It is well-known that H.P. Lovecraft was a racist bigot, a fact that has been used on occasion to analyze his work.  \n2 S.T. Joshi is one of the most important of them; his name accompanies most of contemporary publications of Lovecraft’s work be it as editor or writer of prologues and complementary essays. Jeff Lacy’s «The Negative Mystics of the Mechanistic Sublime: Walter Benjamin and Lovecraft’s Cosmicism» is also a product of this resurgence and an interesting exploration.  \n3 Haraway attempts to distance herself from HPL, stating that the scientific nomenclature from which she takes the word, Pimoa chthulhu, evokes «Naga, Gaia, Tangaroa, Medusa, Spider Woman, and all their kin are some of the many thousand names proper to a vein of SF that Lovecraft could not have iamagined or embraced—namely, the webs of speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, and scientific fact» (Haraway, 2016: 101). Stating that Lovecraft could not have imagined the «webs of speculative fabulations» or «science fiction» which he himself fathered is less factual and more a political statement.  \nNotwithstanding, Haraway employs multiple terms and tur","cbCaip468ocGaGXZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip468ocGaGXZ","pdf",659774,"English","# Abstract\n## Psychoanalysis and the Real\n## From Cthulhu to Nyarlathotep\n## Lovecraft, Lacan, and poststructuralist semiology\n## Academic reception and the Chthuluscene","[{\"question\":\"How does the text connect Lovecraft’s fiction to psychoanalysis?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that fantastic speculative fiction shares an uncanny relationship with psychoanalysis and that Lovecraftian monsters can operate as a placeholder for Lacanian Real.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author claim Cthulhu cannot represent the Real anymore?\",\"answer\":\"Cthulhu is described as a signifier that has been exhausted and overrepresented in contemporary pop culture.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Nyarlathotep represent according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"Nyarlathotep, like the Real, cannot be pinned down: its form permanently changes while it still “crawls” along a consistent trajectory, mirroring how the signifier moves.\"}]","INTO THE SIGHTLESS VORTEX OF THE UNIMAGINABLE - NYARLATHOTEP OR THE TRAJECTORY OF THE LOVECRAFTIAN SIGNIFIER | PDF",1791309033,31]