"by offering ourselves to the Other as the object of its desire ..we try to fill out the unbearable..."

“by offering ourselves to the Other as the object of its desire ..we try to fill out the unbearable gap of “What do you want from me?” ..of the Other’s desire”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on love as an accident, as a way of dealing with an impasse of seeing someone’s lack, or, in short, as answering the Other’s lack with my own lack, my own love, my own loving her or him back http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117606547126