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However, the tragedy of lust is that its victory is often its undoing. The central problem of lust desires is their relationship with satisfaction. As the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan noted, desire is not a drive toward a specific object, but a drive toward the renewal of desire itself. The fantasy that fuels lust—the imagined union, the perfect touch—is always more coherent and satisfying than the reality. In fantasy, the other person is a perfect mirror of our needs. In reality, they have their own appetites, their own breath, their own disappointing morning-after habits. This gap between the imagined and the real is the source of lust’s characteristic aftermath: the hollow ache of satiety. Like a fever that breaks, the post-coital clarity often reveals not connection, but a deeper solitude. We realize we were not desiring the person, but a feeling they temporarily catalyzed.
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