The Praying Mantis Example Is Relevant Here

In the case of anxiety, you have this big other. What brings you anxiety is the possibility that you might be the positive object of their desire. You might be what they want. The question of what is very easily answered. Desire always has an object or a series of objects that it wants. This is symbolized in Lecanian algebra with little A again. It's the experience of lack that is the cause of desire. We can't want what we already have; we only want things that are lacking.