
Anxiety, Episode 6
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Process of Subjectification
In order to produce a split subject, you also have to awaken something known as desire because what's left of demand after need has been met is an insatiable desire for care from other people. Little A is this third element and I'm telling you that it's up here as well. This process is called subjectification and it produces a split subject. Big A with a circle around it in the graph in front of you is this treasure trove of signifiers. The subject is constituted in the locus of the other upon what is given by the treasure of the signifier.
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