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![]() ![]() In commenting on the way that desire repeats and insists through the transference and the signifier in psychoanalytic work, Lacan verifies our first reading, that desire is fundamentally a desire for recognition: Firstly, that desire is essentially a desire for recognition from this ‘Other’ secondly that desire is for the thing that we suppose the Other desires, which is to say, the thing that the Other lacks. There are two relatively straightforward ways in which we can understand one of Lacan’s most well-known maxims, that “Man’s desire is the desire of the Other”? ( Seminar XI, p.235). Our desires are not our own, they are the Other’s
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