The problem is you think you have time-Carlos Castaneda

Refinding an object that has fundamentally been lost

Eric, I clearly see that the subject is about the subject matter of a quote by Carlos Castaneda. That much is obvious.

But your statement in the paragraph of this text leaves a lot to be desired. I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say or what point you are trying to make, or what the title of the post has to do with what you are saying in the body of your paragraph.

Your statement that is barely a sentence does not have a subject and does not include any sort of expounding information beyond a frivolous and meaningless statement.

Can you please expound upon the point that you think you are trying to make here so that we can all benefit from your clear expertise on the subject of Toltec texts?

Also, I think you are a bit lost. This is the "Introduction" section of the forum, where new members are encouraged to announce their newfound membership on this forum and say a bit about themselves so that it doesn't appear that they just appeared out of nowhere and began spewing unintelligible nonsense without any direction or appearance to attempt to make an actual point that other people might be able to comprehend or understand using the English language, which admittedly is hard to do for many people at some point, but generally it is understood that in order to communicate with other people there has to be some sort of actual point that needs to be established even if that is an opinion, But at the very least there must be a subject or an object or a preposition rather than just a mundane and meaningless blather of a statement that sounds more like the product of a peyote ritual rather than an actual statement signifying something.

I understand that it sounds like you are intending to find something that was lost. Could it be the key to comprehension of the English language?

Objet petit a is a development of the concept of the object in psychoanalytic theory. It arises from the need to specify the original object of psychoanalytic theory. Lacan took Freud’s “lost object of desire” as a reference. He also took into account Donald Winnicott’s “transitional object” and Melanie Klein’s “partial object”.

Thus, Lacan was in tune with the Freudian hypothesis that refers to the “lost object of desire” as something that’s incessantly searched for and never found. It’s an unfulfilled asymptotic desire by definition, but one that allows the individual to learn by being in touch with reality.

At first, Lacan’s objet petit a consists of a person’s lack of desire to have something fulfilled, because whenever the object of desire is fulfilled, then the person turns to another object of desire. Although this concept went beyond this, the object a basically refers to the initial letter of autre, which means “other” or “another” in French, and was intended to refer to “another” or “the other” object of desire.

Lacan used the letter a as a logical value, based on algebra. It’s a concept that he used to ascribe a metaphor to the idea of loss. He viewed the person experiencing a mix of their desire, their “other” desire, joy, love, and anguish. For this reason, it’s difficult for the person to let go, as they’ll have to pay the price of their loss.

Thus, we aren’t referring to something that you’ve lost, but rather the constant feeling that something’s missing in your life. In other words, the objet petit a would be a way of covering over whatever’s missing from your life.