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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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The Negative One Is the Starting Point

Can you talk a little bit about this concept of lack of like starting from as you talk about in your podcast a negative one and just sort of disorient us to that concept before we move on. The point of desire is actually to keep that situation going not to get something that would there's no object that could could fill the lack because there's no like what you're desiring when you desire is an object in so far as it's lacking. I think that's the key idea and I think it's a really hard idea even for me sometimes but if you understand, then you get this structure of desire based on a constant lack. There's no point at which the lack's fulfilled

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