Assertion: desire | /r/HasProperty | metonymy
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Source sentences:
text: Desire is a metonymy (p. 175) because the object that causes it, constituted as lost, makes it displace permanently, from object to object, as no one object can really satisfy it.
text: The object of desire is continually deferred, which is why desire is a metonymy.
text: This ‘eccentricity’ of desire in the face of any satisfaction is why Lacan says that desire is metonymy (Ecrits, 528).