"It" is an objet petit a: both object-cause and illusory fulfillment of desire

Rating: 7/10 (14 November 2016)

"It" has so far been understood properly in review by Andrew Kingsley of The Darthmouth, where he stated that the film captures the abject, but let's not stop at Freud. As someone who has experienced a crippling, unfulfilling desire for another person, as a desiring subject myself, I could completely relate to the agonies of our protagonist.
As seen in one of the first scenes of the movie, she seems to have fulfilled her childhood dreams of driving away and having fun with a guy she likes. But, when he leaves her, she's left in a state of utter agony. Spoken in Lacanian psychoanalytic terminology, the "objet petit a" that served the purpose of an illusory object that filled the hole in the chain of signification for her was driven away from her and she was left "with her hands tied", to make it obvious that this object is illusory, thus the "objet petit a" remains only the hole in the signifying chain, waiting to be filled by another "objet petit a", or in English, whatever object momentarily comes to serve the purpose; or anyone else she might experience the same crippling desire for. This desire is never to be fulfilled, but only reproduced, as it is the essence of this hole in the chain of signification.
She being tied implies rape for many, but IMHO it symbolizes the suffocating and immobilizing feeling of inability to ever fulfill our desire for the other. The fact that Paul is the only one able to see our protagonists' "objet petit a", her object-cause of desire, is possibly because he understands very well his desire for her, as they knew each other from the young age. The film ending with the two of them holding hands is in this context a positive outcome for both of them, even though the scene seems grim. They might have realized that the crippling desire for the illusory "objet petit a" will follow them for the rest of their lives and the possible way to put an end to this agony is by coming to terms with this fact, settling down and accepting yourself and your partner as two lacking subjects. In that case, another illusory "objet petit a" appears, serving the purpose of "covering over" the hole in the signifying chain produced by insatiability of their desire. This object, at the end, might be: mutual understanding, friendship, love, or whatever signifier one would use to give a name to this illusory object.
To conclude, this is not the best horror I've seen, but I was lured towards it by rather smart plot that apparently did very well for me, according to a fact that I identified so strongly with the protagonist, even though the symbolical depictions of desire that goes after her were, well... Perhaps too graphical. But it was necessary for them to be able to murder their desiring subjects, as possibly a message from the director that we should look after ourselves in our pursuit to fulfill the desires, as this might take us down the roads of exaggeration in sex and drugs or whatever comes, only then possibly leading to rape, STDs' and unfortunate deaths. This is real-life horrific truth about how we function amidst the dialectic of desire, where actually only death is certain, as emphasisingly quoted at the end of the movie.