yes Professor Godshalk, but what you are enjoying in love-making are your
desire (always present, always proleptic) *and* your present emotional and
physical gratification (a category distinct from desire). This
gratification is experienced in the present, as Stephen pointed out in the
same post, but recognized retrospectively.
What is most significant for this list, I think, is that somehow,
sixteenth-century English poets drew similar links between desire and
futurity four hundred years before Lacan. Witness the repeated recourse to
the future tense in poetizations of love making in the examples from
Shakespeare and Barnfield I mentioned, or Dickenson's epigraph. Witness
their recognizing ("the cause of this fair gift in me is wanting"), four
centuries before Lacan, how wanting/desiring and wanting/lacking are one
and the same, in (sixteenth century) English language and culture.
Truth, for Lacan, can never be articulated in its entirety, just as, and
for the same reason, desire is always proleptic. It is what one always
says, because one always strives, in the present.
my heartiest thanks for your listening, and your insisting on these erotemas,
Shirley
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