In Pursuit Of The Fading Subject Across The Field Of Fantasy

Reading Lacan over the years I have often found myself, like Joxer in The Plough and the Stars in a state close to intoxicated perplexity. 'What is the moon and what is the stars?' are however questions which occupy me less than 'What is the subject?'. Obviously one can address this question to the widest possible forum of experience but in Seminar VIII it is anchored to the issue of transference, and is linked repeatedly to the fundamental fantasy.…