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| Actually, Lacan says there is a difference between Desire and desire. Lower-case desire is the need for something to replace the symbolic and attempt to connect with the real. Capital d is the... | |
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| original Desire to connect with the real. Except, you can never completely connect with the real, just have small, elusive moments of connection--jouissance. Instead of actually connecting... | |
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| to the real, you sublimate your Desire (capital d) by accumulating objects that you think will satisfy that need. These objects are separate from objet petit a, which is an over-arching other, the | |
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| thing you sublimate for. Of course, thing is different from capital Thing. A thing is inaccessible. It takes an object and adds power to it. A capital Thing is part of the real which suffers from... | |
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| the signifier. When you name part of the Thing, it becomes the real. At any rate, here's Lacan's schema for love: a/-ö ◊ A. That's objet petit a, divided by castration, sublimated to the Other. | |
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| If Jacques Lacan married Chaka Khan, and she gave birth to Shera Khan... | |
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