Mask of Desire
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.655
Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality > *On a book by Jean Delay and another by Jean Schlumberger<sup>1</sup>*
Theoretical move: Through a psychoanalytic reading of André Gide's life and love, Lacan argues that desire is constitutively structured by lack and death—that the beloved object is always already "embalmed" by a symbolic subtraction linked to the death drive—against ego-psychological notions of genital/oblative love, revealing the secret of desire as inseparable from the mark death leaves on the flesh when the Word separates it from love.
Delay was able to perceive in Gide's construction the essential piece, the one by which the fabrication of the mask—which is exposed to a splitting whose infinite repercussions exhaust the image of Andre Walter—finds the dimension of the persona who becomes Andre Gide, in order that he convey to us that it is nowhere but in this mask that the secret of desire is revealed