"the ever-lacking object-cause of desire is ..nothing but an ..embodiment of a certain lack; ..its..."

“the ever-lacking object-cause of desire is ..nothing but an ..embodiment of a certain lack; ..its fascinating presence is here only to mask the emptiness of the place it occupies, the emptiness which is exactly the lack in the Other—which makes the big Other (the symbolic order) inconsistent.”

- The Sublime Object Of Ideology, p195 -  SLAVOJ ZIZEK
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