COded COunting SELves

“Training axiom—destroy the instinctive
forces in order to replace them with transmitted forces.”

“There is, in fact, a joy that is immanent to desire as though desire were filled by itself and its contemplations, a joy that implies no lack or impossibility and is not measured by pleasure.”

“Pleasure is in no way something that can be attained only by a detour through suffering;
it is something that must be delayed as long as possible because it interrupts
the continuous process of positive desire.”

Jouissance is impossible, but impossible jouissance is inscribed in desire. For that, in its very impossibility, is the Ideal, the “manque-a-jouir that is life.”