playing with organs

A piece of Lacan for today: “The hysteric plays to the extreme with the feeling of elasticity” in a sort of mortal game with organs taken to their extreme function, organs which “should be called unreal,” evaginate or turn inside out in a process of “coming and going,” until extenuation. In Lacan’s reading these organs are terms of pleasure and pain. The hysterical body tries to get to the final point of extenuation through grand gestures, spontaneous and numerous, mixing cruelty with desire, aggression with caring, a multiple presentation of oppositions “an object of anxiety in the gestures of jouissance – the jouissance in which everything is there – presented, open, offered. Inaccessible.”