This [[formula]] is to be read: the [[bar]]red [[subject]] in relation to [[demand]], the [[fading]] of the [[subject]] before the insistence of a [[demand]] that persists without any [[conscious]] [[intention]] to sustain it.
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The Drive
The drive for Lacan is not a biological phenomenon but a more complex force with a more subtle role in psychological explanation (Marks, Glowinski, and Murphy 2001, 104). Because words and images are the key to the psyche and we live in a state where our natural engagement with the world, unconstrained by order and responsive to jouissance, has (following the mirror phase) been displaced in favor of a sense of self in relation to others, we are no longer merely ciphers of biology and instincts (albeit at a complex level). The world is a world that has taught me that I too have an image and that I (and mother) live under the name of the father, the absent–present logos arising from the preeminence of the phallus (itself not fully understood). I can never be the phallus and I can never grasp my own imago. For that reason my desire as a human being is always a product of self, the world, and language or signification. The self I want to be I can never be because I cannot know what it is and it is nothing until I make it so (to a plan I do not fully understand). It is in the light of these multiple uncertainties, shifts in signification and reality, and discontinuities, that human psychology articulates itself.
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