ABSTRACT
This chapter delineates two categories of patients, each responding differently to the invariant demand for work. The first category treats the demand as a catastrophe that must be averted, no matter the cost. The second is uncertain what work to do: the work demanded by desire or the work of resisting this demand. Excited by desire's promise of satisfaction while terrified by what they might learn and lose, these people are caught: complying with desire's demand for work while also working against it. The work of desire demands that the object, before being found. That is, the work of desire insists on delay, on a unit of time when the worker, though lacking the object, nonetheless preserve its representation. That is, they must remember, preserve and anticipate. They must suffer the painful awareness that representation is not identical to possession.
