TERM AND TRANSLATION
real / the real
réel / le réelreal / the real
The site fixes réel as 实在 so that both actual and virtual can be said to be real, rather than forcing one Chinese word to carry both actual and real.
Atlas working translation
实在
- French term
- réel / le réel
- English term
- real / the real
Variants and search terms
- 现实Simplified record
- 真实Simplified record
- 实在物Simplified record
- 實在Traditional record
- 現實Traditional record
- 真實Traditional record
- realCommon / non-Chinese record
- the realCommon / non-Chinese record
Conceptual boundary
Here réel names the real encompassing actual and virtual; Lacan’s Real, documentary fact, and objective truth belong to other conceptual levels.
Sources and translations
- 01Gilles Deleuze, Le Bergsonisme, PUF, 1966
Primary text for Deleuze’s reconstruction of duration, memory, the virtual, and multiplicity.
- 02Gilles Deleuze, Différence et répétition, PUF, 1968
French primary text.
- 03《柏格森主义》，安靖译，上海人民出版社，2023
Published Mainland translation documenting current Chinese philosophical usage.
- 04“德勒兹词典”中文社区语料
Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.
Open external source ↗ - 05Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1
Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.