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Introspection into desire  

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6/26/2018 7:43 pm
Introspection into desire

Jacques Lacan once said

"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

There's something to that. Something that a notch on the bedpost just can't reach. There's something beyond a number of people who find you interesting, or attractive, or spend their time with you even if those moments are filled with passion. At the end of it, it's still not everything.

Everything might be silly to try and go after. Maybe everything, or the universe, doesn't exactly mean that. It might mean something like everything to you, or your "universe"; the scope of your needs and desires.

Interpreting the universe is interesting. Symbolically, it is vast emptiness with scattered brilliance. Huge stars with gaps that would take the lifetimes of civilizations to cross. So much emptiness, but a frontier still that people can look out to and want.

There's a catch to wanting that though. If it goes too far, seeking that everything can become an<b> obsession. </font></b>Obsession can feel fulfilling at first. Exciting. Driving.

Imagine every moment where you were in lethargy, or uncertainty, and<b> obsession </font></b>can promise to fill that up. Apply that to a place like this. It's no small thing to be driven to seek that thing that will always be out of reach, because everything in between can only fulfill fractions.

Lacan also said:

"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even<b> obsession </font></b>for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."

There's a trap in chasing the endless, then. Reconciling those two ideas are not easy things. One, what good is a lover if they can not give you everything? The other, when everything is sought with obsession, it can be a trap.

That leaves only a middle ground. Can someone find fulfillment in that between two extremes?

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