“The objet a is … of the subject’s desire … it is not simply an objective property of the beloved—that X which fascinates me in the beloved exists only for me, not for an “objective” view. … the status of that which makes me desire an object is irreducibly linked to my “subjective” perspective … far from simply standing for the excess in the object eluding the subject’s grasp, the objet a is … his or her desire for me … what eludes me in a libidinal object is not some transcendent property, but the inscription into it of my own desire … in desire … the aspiration to fullness is transferred to partial objects … the drive is not an infinite longing for the Thing,” not the getting “fixated onto a partial object—the “drive” is this fixation itself in which resides the “death” dimension of every drive,” Zizek says

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