"...why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far: to be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope."
"Who ever desires what is not gone? No one, The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it."
Anne Carson
"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
which show like grief itself , but are not so...
...so your sweet majesty,
Looking awry at upon your lord's departure,
Finds shapes of grief more than himself to wail."
Shakespeare
"Desire...evokes lack of being under the three figures of the nothing that constitutes the basis of the demand for love, of the hate that even denies the other's being, and of the unspeakable element in that which is ignored in its request"
Jacques Lacan
"...fantasy space functions as an empty surface, as a kind of screen for the projection of desires: the fascinating presence of its positive contents does nothing but fill out a certain emptiness."
"The fundamental point of psychoanalysis is that desire is not something given in advance, but something that has to be constructed...through fantasy, we learn how to desire."
Slavoj Zizek
"...you should never cease to be aware that all aspects of the learning you have acquired, and will acquire, are possible because of their relationship with negation - with that which is not, or which appears not to be. The most impressive thing about man, perhaps the only thing thing that excuses him of all his idiocy and brutality, is the fact that he has invented the concept of that which does not exist."
"...invention is, in fact, a cautious dipping into the negation that lies outside the system from a position firmly ensconced in system."
Glenn Gould
It would be subreptitious of me not to admit that I lifted the Lacan quote from the same Carson text, and Shakespeare's words, obviously, from Zizek.
