The Child Threw It Away, the Parent Brought It Back

Lecan says that her earliest, one of her earliest memories is the memory of this shopkeeper who groped her through her dress when she was a childand had a smile on his face. She feels that she is encountering the asting, the abyss of the other's desire. Lecan: Our experience of tha ting is sly that there is a love and a fear of the enigmatic desire of the other. It threatens to envelop us,. It's terrifying, and yet it's fundamentally desirous. And everything we don't usually see that's below the bar is what we're not really aware of.