@article{oai:hokuriku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000642,
 author = {Dennis , Harmon II and Yoshida, Akiyo and Dennis , Harmon II and Yoshida, Akiyo},
 issue = {50},
 journal = {北陸大学紀要, Bulletin of Hokuriku University},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The genre of science fiction (SF) is accompanied by a core structural problem:
knowledge. We explore the concept of knowledge as it exists in the symbolic order.
To this end, we discuss the concept of “knowing what we know” within the conscious
or symbolic and its relationship with “not knowing what we know” which emerges
from the Freudian notion of the unconscious. The core of the narrative structure of SF
is that of ignorance of ignorance which we explore through the concept of Lacan’s
principles related to unconscious desire. In this paper, we analyze the desires and
anxieties inherent in the narrative and how they manifest themselves in relation to
the Lacan’s ex-istence and the Real. The subject’s desire and anxiety in the narrative
is not limited to the characters, but also understanding the author’s own symbolic
constraints regarding knowledge is also a subject of consideration. We pay particular
attention to the structure and representation of utopia in modern SF, and clarify that
utopia is a literary expression of the symbolic world and that the boundary with the
Real is the limit of utopia.},
 pages = {101--116},
 title = {For They Know What They’ve Done: Desire, Guilt, and the Ethics of Science Fiction in Media},
 year = {2021}
}