Oliver Meisel

“One is the subject of a particular fate, a fate one has not chosen but which, however random or accidental it may seem at the outset, one must nevertheless subjectify; one must, in Freud's view, become its subject. Primal repression is, in a sense, the roll of the dice at the beginning of one's universe that creates a split and sets the structure in motion. An individual has to come to grips with that random toss—that particular configuration of his or her parents' desire—and somehow become its subject. "Wo Es war, sell Ich werden." I must come to be where foreign forces—the Other as language and the other as desire—once dominated. I must subjectify that otherness.”
― Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance