Se Faire
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.80
**The Drives: Se Faire . . .**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the drive is fundamentally acephalous — the subject must be brought into being *where* the drive (as the Other's demand) was — and that drive activity, including repetition compulsion, is best understood as the neurotic subject's attempt to subjectivize traumatic satisfaction by enlisting the Other's demand to sanction and execute its own desire.
one aspect of Lacan's (1978) expression se faire for the drives: se faire demander. We interact with our parents in such a way that they demand that we do something