Seminar XI, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Object Cause of Desire, Obgea
In psychoanalysis, the word for this third element is obgea. It's the minimum irreducible distance between any two entities that allows them to remain distinct. Because both of these entities are lacking, because that is an empty space, you can think of it as a gap,. The object cause of desire, obgea famously described and introduced by Lacan in seminar 10.
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