La mujer y el Objeto perdido

This article pursues, according to the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, an approach to the impossible place the woman occupies from the man’s perspective; the man, in his condition as an individual in need, wants to fill a void. Death’s impulse is a significance insistence to fill it. Life piles up around death; there it accumulates to impede the void. There is no desire of death; the desire emerges because of death’s existence. When the primordial Word emerges, something is lost in reality, if there was no Object’s absence, that absence which glows in the fetish or in the loved woman, there wouldn’t be death’s impulse, either. The woman replaces the lost Object; where death displays, the illusion of life appears. The woman is that illusion as well: the creation, the effect of the fundamental fiction, the image of plenitude. The man can’t do anything but stalk her. In her, men also look for the Grail and El Dorado.