The Desublimation of Desire

The object cause of my desire can also be part and parcel of what I do as a subject of the drive. This is that desublimation that I was talking about here. A shift from these imaginary objects, cigarettes, lollipops, cars, money and the like, back to something that can be experienced as my lack. To reclaim from this fantasy of life pegged on what we imagine the other to be demanding. Something more akin to a lack that is uniquely mine. It's not a thing in the world but instead an opening into which I've been shoving things all these years. The process of demand to desire shows that a demanding other suppresses the subject of the