
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 4
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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What Does Jewish Songs Have to Do With Anxiety?
The neurotic is told that they are nothing more than an object for somebody else's desire. What provokes anxiety in the neurotic is feeling like the cause of their desire is the object of the big other's desire. That's what Lecan is working out here on pages 45 and 46. The neurotic can't bear to think of themselves as anything except a subject.
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