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Sadist Enjoys The Law Not Just The Pain
- McCormick explains the sadist doesn't primarily enjoy inflicting pain but the ostentatious presentation of the law and producing anxiety in the subject.
- He ties this to BDSM consent forms as symbolic amplification: elaborate rules are the pervert's way to prop up the symbolic.
Anxiety Is The Overbearing Presence Of The Other
- Lacan opposes Heidegger's view that anxiety is a relation to nothing; instead anxiety has an object: the cause of desire (lack) that becomes oppressive.
- Anxiety is the enveloping imminence of the other's desire, not mere object-loss.
The Object Of Anxiety Is The Cause Of Desire
- Lacan's formulation: anxiety is 'not without an object' because its object is the enigmatic cause of desire (objet petit a), not a normal visible object.
- McCormick emphasizes this is why anxiety feels like someone won't leave you alone — they want your lack.