Desire

According to Lacan, crucial is that we should not give up desire towards objet petit a; desire is the first step for reshaping the way in which we want something. Deleuze calls this the practice to change the assemblage of desire. In fact, desire works beneath consciousness; nobody can controll it, but desire always leads us to deviant directions to which the conflicting parts of a body paves the way. Lacan argues that the parts of a body desire something different in each. It is interesting that Lacan puts emphasis on the confliction that opens the field of possibility, the one like champ in Bourdieu's terms. The field is an abstract space forcing the habit of perception to be shocked by the real -- this is the typical way of surrealist performance. I think there might be deeper connection between surrealism and the Lacanian concept of desire.