Cession de l'Objet
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.142
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Perversion and the Other** > cause of desire è desire è object of desire
Theoretical move: The passage reframes sadism not as the infliction of suffering but as the production of anxiety in the partner, arguing that this anxiety functions as proof for the sadist of the big Other's existence and desire—thereby inverting the neurotic's fantasy structure and situating the sadist's aim at the object yielded to the law rather than pain itself.
Lacan (2004) refers to this as *la cession de l'objet* (p. 375), meaning the yielding, transferring, giving up, or handing over of the object. The sadist's aim thus is not anxiety itself, but what it attests to for him: the object to which the law applies and, thus, the existence of the lawmaker.