Activity

a subject remaining ‘separated from itself’, in the mysterious form of being ‘a stranger to oneself’ that pre-Althusserian readings of Marx sometimes revisit.

Among the many objects of desire [...] one finds not only strategic interests such as seeking promotion, receiving a raise, or beating competitors, but also the pursuit of the joy stemming from being loved by a superior, that is, loved both by a particular individual and by the institution (a great…

treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love

there is no need to pass through an ontogenetic hypothesis in order to account for demands for love addressed within social universes such as employment

even aside from this apodictic derivation