ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on Lacanian philosophy and tries to contribute to a perspective of how Desire may come into teacher Being (the symbolic) and existence (the Real) and vice versa, in a constant being–desire interweaving. In theory and as a point of narrowing down, it is possible to outline six aspects that can be included in a theory of Desire. In the following, these six aspects will be explained, namely (1) Indeterminateness; (2) Personal; (3) Embodiment; (4) Skills-based; (5) Fantasy-based; and (6) Lost and lack in discourse. The six aspects will be supplemented with significant terms such as passivity, discourse, tradition, Angst, the Real, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, nothing, enjoyment, (counter-)transference, speaking being, and narcissism. These six aspects may not, at first glance, be particularly faithful to a pure Lacanian terminology, but I hope that when Lacan is placed in interaction with parts of Heidegger and Gadamer's philosophy, among others, the meaning of the aspects becomes more accessible.
