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"...the only thing of which one can be guilty, at least from an analytic perspective, is to have given up on one’s desire."

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Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII.

Originally delivered during his 1959–1960 lectures and published in French in 1986.

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Such a concession can manifest as depression, anxiety, or conversion phenomena, exemplified by chronic fatigue. Live your truth.

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