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==Introduction==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Lacan]] states that in ''Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety''<ref>(1926, S.E. XX)</ref> [[Freud]] speaks of everything but [[anxiety]] just "to leave the emptiness in which there is anxiety."
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This [[affect]], related to the [[structure]] of the [[subject]], is not repressed but adrift; only the signifiers that anchor it are repressed.
 
 
 
For Lacan anxiety, ''angoisse'', is not without an [[object]], but this object is unknown.
 
 
 
 
 
Since anxiety is linked to [[desire]], and [[fantasy]] is the support of desire, the starting point is the ''fantasme'' elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in ''Les formations de l'inconscient'': [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif]] <>a (Subject barred by the signifier/relation to/''[[objet a]]'', which is the [[object of desire]], the [[imaginary]] [[part-object]], an element imagined as separable from the rest of the body).
 
 
 
He then proceeds to define ''objet a'' which relates anxiety with desire.
 
 
 
''Objet a'' is the [[cause of desire]], not its aim.
 
 
 
On one hand, it is "the residue of division when the subject is marked by the 'unbroken line' of the signifier in the field of the Other."
 
 
 
''Objet a'' is different from the a of the [[mirror stage]], it is not specular; neither is it "visible in what continues for the subject the [[image]] of his desire."
 
 
 
It is what is lost during the original constitution of the [[subject]] where the [[Father]] is primary.
 
 
 
If we consider the body, ''objet a'' is not created by the separation from the [[mother]], but from the separation from the body proper.
 
 
 
''Objet a'' is the placenta, ''l'hommelette'', and even the breast tied to the subject and detached from the mother.
 
 
 
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They are all [[objects of desire]] for us, and there is no anxiety for the [[woman]].
 
In a system centered on the signifier, ''objet a'' seems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real deprivation."
 
  
On the other hand, anxiety arises when lack comes to be lacking.
 
 
It is not nostalgia for the material breast, but the threat of its imminence.
 
 
Lacan uses Jone's analysis of the nightmare, "this being, the incubus, who weighs on our chest with his opaque weight of foreign ''jouissance''," "who crushes the subject under his jouissance," and who is "a questioner."
 
 
Anxiety, like desire, is linked to the [[Other]], to the ''[[jouissance]]'' and to the demand of the Other.
 
 
Lacan links it to the terrible commandment of the Father-God: "''Jouis''!"
 
For instance, what or whose apparition does for the sudden gap of an opening window (The [[Wolf Man]])?
 
 
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An [[uncanny]] strangeness or familiarity, it is the horror of the [[Thing]] against which only [[desire]] and [[law]] combined are able to protect us.
 
 
This takes place when the [[subject]] loses the support of the lack that allows him to constitute himself: - F (the [[phallus]] as symbol of lack).
 
 
It is difficult to situate - F and ''objet a'' in their mutual rapport.
 
 
The phallus is sometimes the ''agalma'', and sometimes an operating libidinal reserve that saves the subject from the fascination of the part object.
 
 
Hence, the importance granted to [[symbolic]] [[castration]] in front of "the father's opaque and ungraspable desire," a [[castration]] at the origin of the law.
 
 
Anxiety, then, is an affect, not an emotion; the only affect which is beyond all doubt and which is not deceptive.
 
 
Whereas Freud distinguishes between fear (focused on a specific object) and anxiety (which is not), Lacan posits anxiety as not without an object: it simply involves a different kind of object, one that cannot be symbolized as other objects are.
 
 
This object is ''objet a'', the [[object-cause-of-desire]], and anxiety arises when something fills the place of it, when the subject is confronted by the desire of the Other and does not know what object he is for that desire.
 
 
Also Lacan links anxiety to lack.
 
 
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All desire springs from lack, and anxiety appears when this lack is in itself lacking: "anxiety is the lack of a lack."
 
 
Anxiety is not the absence of the breast, it is rather the possibility of its absence which saves the subject from anxiety.
 
 
Acting out and passage to the act are last defenses against anxiety
 
 
And what happens in the cure? How can the analyst measure how much anxiety a patient can bear?
 
 
How may the analyst deal with his own anxiety?
 
 
The desire of the analyst is here involved and he has to institute, along with anxiety, the - F, an emptiness whose function is structural.
 
 
==Bibliography==
 
 
* ''Le séminaire, Livre X: L'angoisse, 1962-1963''.
 
 
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* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.11.14.pdf 1962.11.14.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.11.21.pdf 1962.11.21.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.11.28.pdf 1962.11.28.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.12.05.pdf 1962.12.05.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.12.12.pdf 1962.12.12.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1962.12.19.pdf 1962.12.19.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.01.09.pdf 1963.01.09.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.01.16.pdf 1963.01.16.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.01.23.pdf 1963.01.23.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.01.30.pdf 1963.01.30.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.02.20.pdf 1963.02.20.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.02.27.pdf 1963.02.27.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.03.06.pdf 1963.03.06.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.03.13.pdf 1963.03.13.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.03.20.pdf 1963.03.20.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.03.26.pdf 1963.03.26.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.05.08.pdf 1963.05.08.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.05.15.pdf 1963.05.15.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.05.22.pdf 1963.05.22.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.05.29.pdf 1963.05.29.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.06.05.pdf 1963.06.05.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.06.12.pdf 1963.06.12.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.06.19.pdf 1963.06.19.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.06.23.pdf 1963.06.23.pdf]
 
* [http://{{Archive}}/seminaireX/1963.07.03.pdf 1963.07.03.pdf]
 
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1962 - 1963 Le séminaire, Livre X: L'angoisse
The Seminar, Book X: Anxiety