Jouissance.
Desire Systems.
How an individual processes and navigates the world of their projections and the beliefs that are structured along the way has become an umbrella interest for me. Learning about how to responsed to the world of our creation, as life unfolds. And observing the ego as it spirals- searching for a way forward.
Here is something relating to Lancan and desire that I think its interesting.
In constructing our fantasy-version of reality, we establish coordinates for our desire; we situate both ourselves and our object of desire, as well asthe relation between. As Slavoj Zizek puts it, "through fantasy, we learn how to desire" (Looking Awry 6). Our desires therefore necessarily rely on lack, since fantasy, by definition, does not correspond to anything in the real. Our object of desire (what Lacan terms the "objet petit a") is a way for us to establish coordinates for our own desire. At the heart of desire is a misrecognition of fullness where there is really nothing but a screen for our own narcissistic projections. It is that lack at the heart of desire that ensures we continue to desire. To come too close to our object of desire threatens to uncover the lack that is, in fact, necessary for our desire to persist, so that, ultimately, desire is most interested not in fully attaining the object of desire but in keeping our distance, thus allowing desire to persist. Because desire is articulated through fantasy, it is driven to some extent by its own impossibility.”
I will post some tidbits I find along the way.