
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 2
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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What Do You Want Me to Be?
The neurotic thinks that they can escape anxiety by forcing the big other into a circuit of demand, forcing it to respond. But somehow there's a trap in there because beyond that, where demands finally run out, that castration pops up again. So I'm really happy that kind of brought us back to this question of what do they want me to be? Perends for them. That is the pervert's sexual fantasy is to be a dildo for the big other. My only goal in life is to get you off. For the neurotic, that's like a horribly anxious position to be in.
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