Model (n.) must keep desiring the object for it to keep its value: the eternal husband brings his rival to meet his fiancée not to lose her but so the rival will desire her and ratify his choice.
Model (n.) and the obstacle are one and the same, and there is nothing paternal about it — the secret Freud circled all his life.
A Model (n.) is always also a rival: to desire through him is to put yourself in his power.
Model (n.) is no triangle, no mother or father, no family group, but a desire the imitator need not represent — and cannot.
The Model (n.) becomes the obstacle and the obstacle the model, so that desire finally cares only for what opposes it.
The Model (n.) a child finds among the already scandalised will make him a mimetic replica and a grotesque caricature of them.
A Model (n.) makes itself effective by imitating itself first and by counting out what it expects from the others.