I am someone who has a decent background in Lacan so my explanation goes as follows. The Imaginary consists of your ego, ego-ideal, ideal ego, and the specular image. The ego, is the set of resistances and where defense mechanisms come from. ego ideal is the other you measure yourself too. The ideal ego is what you want to be seen as. the specular image is how you present to the world. You are a split being because you have a gap of desire that can never be filled. The Symbolic is the most important order in my view and many others. The symbolic is what regulates your interaction with the world through language, through understanding cultural and social structures, and it is also where morality is centered. You could say the super ego is positioned in the symbolic. The real is the most difficult of Lacan's orders to pin down really. So at first it was this elusive feeling you could only interact with through trauma. In later lacan, it becomes the order of where the drives are situated and where jouissance (pleasure turned pain) is situated. Onto Chomsky, Chomsky's comments of him were due to his performances he would undergo during his seminars which were just unneeded in my view. They were supposed to posture him as this great intelligent man, when he should have let his ideas do that instead. Chomsky himself says that theres probably something under all of the charlatinism but he doesnt have any motivation to look for it.

@@dissatisfiedphilosophy What kind of performances?

@@dissatisfiedphilosophy I don't love everything about Lacan, but I love the theatrics. Maybe this opinion that I've discovered many to share says more about his audience then it does him. I feel the performance brought him pleasure and let the concepts flow from him. Noam is a straight no chaser kind of guy but I don't think Lacan is the opposite, just a little more eccentric.