neutrality of the symbolic order functions as the ultimate guarantee for the so-called “sense of reality”: as soon as this neutrality is smeared, “external reality” itself loses the self-evident character of something present “out there” and begins to vacillate, i.e., is experienced as delimited by an invisible frame: the paranoia of the noir universe is primarily visual, based upon the suspicion that our vision of reality is always already distorted by some invisible frame behind our backs

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