The Strange Enigmatic Object of Anxiety

In Lacanian algebra, the word or term for that thing that you cannot see but that you know is there at some level is little a. For those of you that have your cameras on, I can look and see what's behind you. You can't. Maybe you can if you study your own image in Skype like so many of us do paying as much attention to what'sbehind you as anything else. When anxiety happens, lack has been taken from you. The experience of anxiety is the experience of a lack of lack as Lacan puts it. He's not being clever. He's being very particular about this.