critical theory with slavoj zizek: I am a subject insofar as the radical perplexity persists as… as to what the Other… finds worthy of desire in me. …When Lacan claims that there is no desire without an object-cause, this does not amount to the banality according to which every desire is attached to its objective correlative:… the lack in question concerns her uncertainty as to her status for the Other’s desire. …The subject’s desire is the desire to ascertain her status as the object of the Other’s desire