Obsessive Temporality
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.197
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Features of Obsession**
Theoretical move: Through a detailed clinical vignette (Wesley), Fink illustrates the structural features of obsession: the subjective strategy of "playing dead" to preserve desire from actualization, the need for an inaccessible object to sustain impossible desire, the annulling of the Other, the ripping away of object a, and the pervasive feeling of being "always already late" — all read through Lacanian coordinates.
Wesley indicated that he feels that he is always late, we might even say 'always already' late, because he slept through his mother's lethal act—he woke up too late to do anything about it. This feeling of being late (or behind, or out of sync) is quite common in obsession