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Postmodern theories of Alterity and identity
desires; rather, it indicates that the self desires only as the Other and thus cannot recognize the object of its desire. The self is, as it were, a detour in the trajectory of the desire of the Other. Lacan's theory of desire arrivesat a conundrum: how can we understand the fact that subjects desire very specific objects? He invented the term'object a' (where the 'a' stands for autre , 'other') in response to this question. Such objects are distinguished by the fact that 'they have no spe...