"Never give up your desires."

 Never give up on your desires, Jacques Lacan.


"Never give up your desires."


Desire is often seen as the enemy of ethics.


Desire is a foreign substance that threatens moral achievement in completing the personality of a mature individual. It is a fatal temptation that must be suppressed, governed, and tamed because it is selfish and destructive. Furthermore, personal desires may be sacrificed to help achieve the public good.


However, Lacan completely rejects the accepted ethics of 'sound' common sense. This traditional ethic is merely an ideology contributing to justifying and maintaining the 'order of power'.


"Come back later when it comes to desire."


For the present urgent public good, desire is always a secondary impediment that must be delayed, yielded, and even given up.


Pleasure is easily sacrificed for productivity, and it is inevitably giving up present desires for future safety.


The ethic of power based on moral 'good' and economic 'utility' compels conformity to the ruling order in the name of morality and usefulness without acknowledging the possibility of other desires or the desires of a few.


Individual, heterogeneous desires that run counter the desires of the majority are 'useless desires' that go against the interests of the community and are therefore morally evil. This ethic eventually degenerates into a system-conforming ethic that contributes to the maintenance of the status quo of the existing order.


In this context, the ethic of psychoanalysis, which requires the affirmation of desire, must be radically politicized. It leads to a political practice that calls for change and a fresh start.


To affirm desire is to reject the ethic of 'maturity' and embrace positively and uncompromisingly the useless desires excluded and sacrificed for it.


But since it is free from impure desires, it should be called pure desire.


Pure desire is not a desire for material convenience. The comfort of life and desire as an impulse toward reality is incompatible with each other. This is because the impulse is an unconditional demand for more fundamental satisfaction, independent of pathological self-interest.


Impulse follows the principle beyond pleasure, not the pleasure principle.


Lacan's ethic, which demands the satisfaction of pure desire, ultimately aims for a new order that endlessly opens up diversity and uniqueness through the infinite realization of desire. Satisfaction and fulfillment of desires will cause uncompromising severance and rupture with the oppressive ruling order in various places.


Attempts to take a leap toward an open order in which various desires can coexist will eventually achieve a community of satisfaction and openness, rather than oppression and closure.e.

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