dear prof. godshalk, i didn't mean to suggest that lacan had a "corner" on truth. i was simply offering what i knew of his thinking about the topic at hand as a contribution. i do think, however, that lacan's formulation of desire as a compound tense construction----a future recollecting the past in a moment of present reflection---was *anticipated* in the early modern period. shakespeare, for instance, tells us in *lucrece* that when we desire, we lose the present, we "make something nothing, by augmenting it."
that *nothing* is the site of desire. and insofar as that nothing is anticipation's evacuation of the present, i agree with you, dr. godshalk.
cheers,
stephen
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