Lacan on fantasy (6 of 9): Object a as object of fantasy

Why can we say that slogan Black Lives Matter attempts to speak to white fantasy What could we describe as Barak Obama s primal scene We discuss racist fantasy, after briefly introducing Lacan s notion of object a. Object a is the result of separation from the Other. This separation involves the subject locating themselves relative to the lack of the Other, responding to the Other s lack with their own lack, so to speak. The resulting remainder of this separation is the object a: the fantasy object. We can think of this object a as the convexity of the subject s lack. What they are lacking is externalized and converted from a negativity to a positive feature, that is then experienced as a compelling feature in someone or something outside of me. We conclude by asking about white racist culture s fascination with the (black) body in pieces. .