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Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 3

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The Relationship Between Desire and the Law

Desire and the law are both founded on prohibition. The child's introduction into language functions the same way as the birth of the law. And that's why he connects law and desire. We're going to talk about that. Okay, but isn't desire supposed to be transgressive of the law? So the desire is the negative of thelaw. Nope. Oh, it's actually the same thing. It's actually a submission of sorts. Jewissants is transgressive. I have to leave in the 20 minutes also.Okay, and I'll bother you too much. But one is from not desire, but the drive in the upper right hand quadrant of the graph of desire

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