thank you, professor grossman, for clarifying that lacan's discussion of the relationship between desire and the future perfect is a relationship mediated by the category of the subject. yes, certainly in the essays you cited and in several other places lacan explains that the subject only ever comes to recognize itself (as split) when it retrospectively encounters the real of desire that it has lost....
i would suggest that lacan---an acquaintance and friend of heidegger---often employs a double genitive when he speaks of the "subject of desire." without a doubt, he's talking about the subject who experiences desire, but he is also talking about the subject who *is* desire.
Dr. Stephen Whitworth
Assistant Professor of English
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
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