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Jamieson Webster: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Useless Organs

Red Medicine

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Lacan's Conception of Desire

Lacan's conception of desire is always based in an object that's not a Freudian concept. He says throughout the development of sexuality, it's in relationship to things that are lost. "Desire itself is not satisfiable," Lacan writes. It lives on what actually can't be satisfied or what's gone and in the permutations and articulations of that"

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