"The infant ..is confronted ..by the unanswerable question of the mother’s desire. It is in the fate..."

“The infant ..is confronted ..by the unanswerable question of the mother’s desire. It is in the fate of this question that the mother assumes the form of das Ding, ..the unknowable, unmasterable + monstrous”

- RICHARD BOOTHBY http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118766636491