Ideograms of Eating
This week I put out my translation and commentary of hexagram 27, Eating. Here are some key ideograms from the text.
龜
Turtle is very clearly a turtle.
欲
Desire is valley + lack. Very Lacanian!
“Desire is a relation of being to lack. This lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It isn’t the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being exists.
“This lack is beyond anything which can represent it. It is only ever represented as a reflection on a veil” -Seminar II
Lack itself (欠) is a kneeling person with an open mouth.
