From the loss of the object: the encounter over the abyss

Abstract

This paper contains theories regarding the relationship between the loss of the object of full satisfaction and the possible experiences of jouissance. In order to undertake this discussion, central concepts will be used such as those from das Ding in Freud, and the object “a” in Lacan, based on the concepts of anguish, joy and eroticism, the latter being a concept found in Georges Bataille’s works. It will also recover the notion of sublimation, the path to satisfaction by which the subject borders the emptiness left by the loss of the object, making a social bond. The symbolic register is thus responsible for making this bond, because by using words the subject could possibly make an encounter over the abyss created by sexual detachment. Language would therefore have the function of filling the emptiness left by the loss of the object, a soothing promise, but impossible to be fulfilled, since nothing is said about this emptiness.