#finkposting

“in saying that the obsessive is characterized by an impossible desire (to attain an unattainable status… to complete an uncompletable project, or to possess what he cannot possess), Lacan goes so far as to add that his desire is for impossibility itself.” - Bruce Fink, Lacan on Love

“Psychoanalysis begins with the presupposition that that Other kind of talk [that talk which is not ego talk, e.g. slips of the tongue] stems from an other which is locatable in some sense; it holds that unintentional words that are spoken. blurted out, mumbled, or garbled come from some other place, some other agency than the ego. Freud called that Other place the unconscious, and Lacan states in no uncertain terms that ‘the unconscious is the Other’s discourse,’ that is, the unconscious consists of those other words which come from some other place than ego talk.” - Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Subject