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A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 2

Peter Rollins - The Archive

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The Impossibility Impenetrability of Anxiety

Anxiety is the flip side of desire that distinguishes anxiety in the human being. We have fear of what we don't know and an animal needs a rustling sound around the corner to alert it that something's around the corner. The way in which the unknown desire of the other is inevitably related to is that almost an opportunity for learning something about my own desire I'm attracted to this vortex of the unknown even as it's causing me very deep uh anxiety and destabilization yeah well.

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