Please explain the 'Objet petit a'

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i'm sorry i have no idea what you're on about

i think our most avid psychoanalysis fans have left, so you might have to make do with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objet_petit_a

or maybe this http://www.lacan.com/zizparallax.htm

dunno. i tend to avoid the stuff.

autonomicforthepeople said:

i think our most avid psychoanalysis fans have left, so you might have to make do with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objet_petit_a

or maybe this http://www.lacan.com/zizparallax.htm

dunno. i tend to avoid the stuff.

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As I understand it the Wikipedia thing pretty much sums it up.

Bracha Ettinger

This woman is intense and, at best, somewhat understandable - but that's the point...she writes like Lacan did.
The 'objet petit a' is the gap created by loss of the primordial object of desire (otherwise known as the mother) - find Lacan's original writings on this subject. Bracha works from Lacan, so you need to know him before you can get your mind around her thinking.
Here's today's addition (7/19/2006):
The citation for Lacan is "Of the gaze as objet petit a," Jan-June 1964, Seminar @ Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris