The Regressive Cycle of Demand and Desire

Lacan: The regressive cycle of demand and desire, where anxiety always steps in as desire verges on Jewish saints, is symbolized here by the teal arrows. Notice it does not take the path of desire. It comes down the slope of transference, arrives here, and then looks for that identification with the analyst and goes right back to the initial line of demand. That's deceptive towards oneself in particular. Something like a closing up occurs and its value is marked in the very form of this spiral developing toward a center. And what the ego ideal symbolized here, read your graph of desire, does to support the ideal ego, desire is going to do here by calling our