objet petit a is the primordial foreign body that “sticks in the throat” of the subject, to the object-cause of desire that splits it up: Fichte himself defines… the non-assimilable foreign body that causes the subject division into the empty absolute subject and the finite determinate subject,… the moment of the “run-in”, the hazardous knock, the encounter of the Real in the midst of the ideality of the absolute I

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