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Lacan oscillates between exaltation and bouts of [[anxiety:]] "The [[logic]] of fantasy is the most fundamental [[principle]] of any logic that deals with [[formalizing]] defiles," and at the same [[time]] defers his presentation of "[[alienation]] in terms logical calculation" because its formulation is not yet ready. The [[reason]] might have been that "[[truth]] is related to [[desire,]]" which "creates difficulties for handling it like logicians do." His aim is to define "a logic that is not a logic, an entirely new logic that I have not named yet, for it [[needs]] to be instituted first." Using the [[character]] of Diotima from <i>The [[Symposium]]</i>, he mentions academic Penia (the [[lack]]) before [[psychoanalytic]] Poros ([[male]] resource) and wonders "up to what point, between the two, he could let the obscurity go."<br>

The multiple transformations of [[Descartes]]' <i>cogito ergo sum</i> (either I [[think]] or I am"; "either I don't think or I am not"; "I am where I don't think," or "I think where I am not") end with a play of [[words]]: <i>Cogito ergo es</i>. The [[Latin]] <i>es</i> (you are) marks the fundamental dependency on the Other and raises the problem of the passage from <i>objet a</i> to the Other or from the Other to <i>objet a</i>. Applied to desire, "I desire you" means "I implicate you in my [[fundamental fantasy]]" as <i>objet a</i>. Applied to [[love]], "You are not, therefore I am not"; "You are [[nothing]] but what I am"; "You are the nothing that I am." Now, in [[German]], <i>Es</i> is the <i>id</i>, defined as the "non-I," the impersonal <i>id</i>, is it the reservoir of [[drives]]? Is it the cauldron (with a hole in it) of [[Freud]]'s witches? Or is it an aggregate of [[signifiers]]?<br>