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Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 4

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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The Sadist Gets Off on Provoking Anxiety

The sadist doesn't get off on hurting you, the sadist gets off on making you squirm. The part of them that looks fabulous online but shitty in person or vice versa provokes anxiety in them. Not knowing is the cause of anxiety. In this moment, you by saying you look nothing like your picture online are the desirous big other. You are the female praying mantis who was rolling up on somebody who doesn't know what mask they're wearing. And the result is anxiety because this person is going to stammer.

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