The Neurotic's Demand for Circumcision

The neurotic wants more than anything for the big other to issue him or her a demand, tell me what to do. Circumcision is also a key theme throughout this seminar as you've seen. It keeps coming back to this topic again and again and again. The split subject courses their way back through the graph of desire all the way up until demands are all emptied out at what Lacan calls the bottom barrel of demand D zero.