Anxiety

I don't think that there's much to be learned at the level of this table. Lacan is trying to say that anxiety is not an emotion, it is an affect. Emotion is a very regulated, linguistified experience. Affects do not. There's an interesting companion to this specific section where this lady fills in the Xs. Can you see this? Oh, yeah. Acting out and passage to the act. Yeah. And she goes through 30 pages of complex work on this. I was feeling similarly that it seemed like a lot of labor to get to not much. Here's the thing. You just never know. This is the nature of intellectual work. As