One really beautiful part of Lacan that I've probably misread/heard/learned was the discussion of enjoyment and limits. To love someone is not to understand them, or know them at all really: it's to love the process of unfolding and approaching the limits of ourselves as subjects with perceptions, languages, and material existences that bind us in some way. I will never in my life see the night sky through the eyes of others, nor will I understand their thoughts in their true intent or velocity, but if I were to sit for a lifetime I'd get closer than anyone else ever would.
One can find beauty, exploration and wonder in a frontier of many kinds. Love is revolutionary act that will take you further than any of the colonialists fuckers made it.
One really beautiful part of Lacan that I've probably misread/heard/learned was the discussion of enjoyment and limits. To love someone is not to understand them, or know them at all really: it's to love the process of unfolding and approaching the limits of ourselves as subjects with perceptions, languages, and material existences that bind us in some way. I will never in my life see the night sky through the eyes of others, nor will I understand their thoughts in their true intent or velocity, but if I were to sit for a lifetime I'd get closer than anyone else ever would.
One can find beauty, exploration and wonder in a frontier of many kinds. Love is revolutionary act that will take you further than any of the colonialists fuckers made it.