Objet Petit a: The Object-cause of Desire (Lacan and Zizek)

We are all desiring subjects. But once we get what we desire, we cannot desire it anymore and the void that we wanted to fill, only shifted. But what is at the cause of this desire? And what is Objet petit a, and why does Lacan place this in the very center of his registers?

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I found this video to be very uplifting. Lacan, and I guess Zizek as well, are the two philosophers who come the closest to my understanding of reality which is found in the radical non-dual message (or sharing, or suggestion) of such people as Tony Parsons, Jim Newman, Andreas Müller, Paul Morgan-Somers, Izzy Cloke, among many others. Radical non-duality is to be contrasted from the much better known form of nonduality taught by people who label themselves, or get labeled as, spiritual teachers. People such as Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rupert Spira, Eckhart Tolle, Gangaji, Andrew Cohen, among many others. In the former, there is no you and nothing anyone can do to become free. In the latter, there are "spiritual" practices one can do in order to become free and that one's fundamental nature is "pure consciousness" or other such concept. For the radical nondual variety, as Lacan speaks of about "The Real, " no concept can do anything but conceal "The Real" because it is that which can never be symbolized, conceptualized, or imagined. Radical nonduality points to That which is "beyond" all ideas, and therefore all philosophies, even Lacan's. In "The Real" there is only muteness and always already and forever no "I am."

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As an answer to the purported despair Lacan's message should instill in us, I might say that it makes one feel more despair, not knowing whence despair emanates. As soon as we can understand reality, there is a quiet contentment in knowing the almost poetic paradox of existence.

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Amazing! Excellent dissection of human desire, and where it originates from.

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