the focus of Lacan's philosophy. . . . Fantasy must surpass reality
because the moment you get it. . . . . you don't and you can't need it any more.
In order to continue to exist, the object of desire must never be attained. What you want is not "it" itself but "it" fantasy, desire and crazy fantasy complement each other.
This is exactly what Basco calls true happiness. . . From daydreaming about the future. Otherwise how can we say "hunting is more fun than killing" or, "be careful what you wish for" not because you will get it, but because once you get it you will never want it again, so Lacan gives us The lesson is that people who achieve their dreams will never be happy. The most human essence is to try your best to live in your thoughts and ideals. Don't measure your life based on how much you want to achieve. Instead, you should get How much sincerity, compassion, rationality even. . . . . Moments of self-sacrifice, to measure. Because in the end, the only measure of how important our lives are is how you view the lives of others.
When I saw this speech for the first time, I did not delve into the meaning of this philosophy, although I felt it had some connotations, especially the word "selfsecrify", until the end, I was deeply shocked by Gale's performance art , touching, regardless of right or wrong, his whole life is a crazy fantasy about the "goal of life", and the achievement of "it" will be facilitated by two "madmen" at the cost of their lives.
For a long time, I have been thinking, what do I want to do, am I happy doing this, does it make sense, and what is the use of what I do in the vast universe or even beyond the universe. . . . Every time I touch this issue, I feel that my level of thinking is too low to abstract the object of "I", and the meaning of human existence is too nihilistic. In fact, after watching Tianyuan Breakthrough, I suddenly felt that there was such a possibility:
Is it possible that human beings, the earth, were raised in captivity? The earth is actually a slightly larger ecosystem. Functionally, it is exactly the same as those glass aquariums. Humans are like every animal in it, as big as fish. Shrimp, as small as bacteria. A smaller analogy is a piece of dust floating in the atmosphere, with countless bacteria on it. . . A smaller analogy, on a molecule, there are countless particles (physics is not good, the smallest particle I know is quark, but this is all human obscenity, who knows how much science there is). Some people may say that my thinking is so pessimistic, and I don't know where to cultivate a philosophical attitude, just casual. This is the most successful theory that I have been able to analyze human intentions so far. Therefore, the earth is a captivity, or the solar system is also a circle, the Milky Way is also a circle, and the universe is just a circle (it turns out that the worldview of the film Wuji is so grand , now I know, I'm guilty//cover your mouth)
Come back to the movie, the pursuit of life is to be happy, and happiness is a daydream of the future, the pursuit of an ideal that cannot be realized in a lifetime, crazy pursuit, that's the problem Now, not everyone is like Gale, who can devote himself to others and politics, so what should ordinary people do? I didn't expect that in addition to being shocked, it was shocking. Maybe the time has not come. When I find that the happiness in the pursuit is greater than everything, greater than physical pleasure, greater than food and lust, and higher than life, then I am happy.
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