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Which doesn't mean the desiring individual; it means desiring consciousness itself.
He is our metaphysical poet, using the desiring, sexual body to ask poetry's eternal questions in distinctively contemporary ways.
In George's view, they are "dualists" who believe the desiring mind is the locus of the authentic self, with the right to use the body to pursue its own ends.
As the desiring brother, he behaves from the beginning as if he were auditioning for a very mad Hamlet: his body is bowed, his voice barks, he is inclined to drop to his knees, to give speeches flat on his back, or, at a particularly tense moment, to execute a backward somersault.
Lacan employs this latter phrase for object a because this "object" is a spectral, virtual construct of what would qualify as "IT" for the desiring subject (see 2.4.1 above), with this libidinal-transcendental schema of desire's object (i.e., a) "causing" select given empirical objects in a person's libidinal-amorous history and experience to be desired as stand-ins for "IT".
For long periods the world of love has been represented in literature by those whose focus was less on the mantle of the Beloved than on what was hidden under or beyond it – on the one hand her nakedness, on the other essence, light, bliss (and the focus was also on the desiring self – "let your thought be on that that thought").
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