And because Warren feels persecuted by obscure cultural forces. And because . . . To discuss how desire operates in representations, both for characters and for readers and viewers. In Lacanian discourse, the most important concepts are lack and wholeness. In Lacan's view, lack is intrinsic to subjectivity because subjectivity is built on a gap between an experience of fragmentation and an image of wholeness.
Humans pursue wholeness by pursuing an endless stream of supplements make themselves complete.
While this can seem tragic, it also encourages us to get tons of stuff done as we pursue integration. 6 To discuss the ways that embodiment is portrayed, especially images of desirable and undesirable bodies. Those bodies whose materiality is culturally highlighted are abject . Effluvia and abjection are developed and discussed by French Feminist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva in her book Powers of Horror .