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Pill Pod 74 - Post Posthumanism

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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What Is the Relation of Desire to Subjectivity?

Lacomte argues that the subject is condemned to choose thinking over being. Gije draws on lacon's interpretation of the cartesian coagito, i think, therefore i am. But we are condemned to being, and thinking is relegated to the position of the unconscious. The whole process of fantasy is this idea of pursuing these lost objects that we think will complete us. And if we complete ourselves, then will have full, absolute enjoyment.

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