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[[Lacan]] reminds his readers that [[Freud]] defined the [[drviedrive]] as a montage composed of four discontinuous elements, the pressure, the end, the object and the source.
The [[drive]] cannot therefore be conceived of as "some ultimate given, something archaic, primordial."<ref>{{S11}} p.162</ref>
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The firs first of these two times (active and reflexive voices) are autoerotic; they lack a subject.
Only in the third time (the passive voice), when the [[drive]] completes its circuit, does "a new subject" appear (which is to say that before this time, there was no subject).
Even supposedly "passive" phases of the [[drive]] such as [[masochism]] involve [[activity]].<ref>{{S11}} p.200</ref>
The circuit of the [[drivdrive]] is the only way for the [[subject]] to transgress the [[pleasure principle]].
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