Anatomy of Autonomy
Reading A. Johnston on Lacan's spin on anxiety and the objet petit a. I suppose I hadn't realized how fundamentally conservative Lacanian psychoanalysis was. Reluctant as I am to admit it, I think this necessity that Lacan posits of external barriers to jouissance in order to uphold the fantasy of a potential full libidinal satisfaction (were it not for the imposition of the Law by the Other) is probably accurate, at least to some extent, and also probably explains my inherent anxiety about post-autonomist politics: even if you do level the hierarchy and make everything horizontal, you aren't going to emerge in a state of subjective bliss--you're just going to be traumatized by the banality and stupidity of human as organism.
Maybe this is where I get off the boat with Deleuze, too. I kind of hate thinking that I am not as progressive or radical as I feel like I should be, but what's to be done?