Anxiety (n.) is a topological problem. It puts my being-there in question. Rather than opening me to an existential question of who or what I am, if forces upon me a question of where I am.
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Anxiety (n.) is terrible precisely because it is not focused on a particular object but revolves around an absence.
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Anxiety (n.) is the cause of doubt. Thus, the true meaning of causality should be looked for in the phenomenon of anxiety.
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Anxiety (n.) is the only emotion that does not deceive.
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Anxiety (n.) is not without an object — though its object, surplus jouissance, is not a name.
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