The Neurotic's Relationship to Fantasy

Lacan refers to this as a kind of like regressive circuit of desire or of demand. He asks the big other to forfeit their desire and replace it with a demand. And what we saw Lacan doing in these early pages, where he's working out this demand stuff, if you look at page 53 again. Big A on its own as we've discussed is like a treasure trove. In this case, meanings of the big other's desire. What do you want? These are all the possibilities. There this little s signifies that one of those meanings has been chosen. So this is a specific meaning. And this regressive cycle of demand. This is the reason why I draw this