Kabul 24<\/a>: Desire is the product of a skewed gaze upon reality. By looking awry, the subject fabricates a surplus over and above the thing itself. This surplus, which emerges from nothing, is precisely Lacan\u2019s objet petit a\u2014the object-cause of desire.<\/p>\nIt is this very surplus (produced by the distorted look) that makes the subject desire the thing. In other words, the object becomes the cause of desire.<\/p>\n
Yet the moment we adopt a critical gaze and examine why we desire\u2014when our look \u201cstraightens out\u201d\u2014or the moment we finally obtain the object of our desire, the fantasy collapses.<\/p>\n
When we look directly at the beloved or the goal of our desire, we see nothing but an ordinary material object: a piece of flesh, a lump of metal, a political system riddled with ugliness, or a hollow social position.<\/p>\n
In simpler terms, the moment our gaze becomes straight is the moment of fantasy\u2019s disintegration. When the subject achieves union (conjunction), he confronts the stupidity of matter.<\/p>\n
The beloved who yesterday was a source of inspiration suddenly turns into an ordinary human being\u2014one who snores, makes trivial mistakes, and no longer carries that imaginary surplus.Image: The AmbassadorsIn Hans Holbein\u2019s painting The Ambassadors, the distorted, anamorphic skull only becomes meaningful when the viewer looks at it from a sharp, oblique (\u201cskewed\u201d) angle.<\/p>\n
The objet a functions in exactly the same way: it is the surplus born from the subject\u2019s skewed gaze, and it becomes the cause of our desire.<\/p>\n
Jamshid Mehrpour \u2013 Kabul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Human beings are always subjects of lack and, therefore, always desiring subjects. We desire something and mistakenly believe that this object has an external, real counterpart. In truth, however, this object is merely a fantasy constructed to fill the terrifying void at the heart of our existence. Kabul 24: Desire is the product of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,108,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-culture-and-art","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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