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(2011) Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity, Dordrecht, Springer.
the object of desire is the cause of desire, and this object that is the cause of desire is the object of drive — that is to say, the object around which the drive turns. … It is not that desire clings to the object of the drive — desire moves around it, in so far as it is agitated in the drive. But all desire is not necessarily agitated in the drive. There are empty desires or mad desires that are based on nothing more than the fact that the thing in question has been forbidden you. By virtue of the very fact that it has been forbidden you, you cannot do otherwise, for a time, than think about it. That too is desire. But whenever you are dealing with a good object, we designate it — it is question of terminology, but a justified terminology — as an object of love.
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Neill, C. (2011). Objet petit a and fantasy, in Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 56-72.
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