‘Now you see it…’(2015). Glastonbury Tor. Fear is without an object, but anxiety is not—anxiety is the object. The drive circles an object (object a) that never satisfies, while desire is structured by its very absence. When the object is “attained,” it disappears—because what we wanted was never the object itself, but the gap it promised to fill. And so we object—we protest—and yet we drive on, not toward satisfaction but toward repetition: the circuit of a lack that insists. We return not to the place where the object was, but to the trace of its impossibility. Glastonbury becomes less a site than a symptom: the sublime raised where desire stalls and drive repeats.
