FOMOsexuality
The French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan defi ned desire as neither inherent nor individual, but a group dynamic, a social interaction: “Desire is the desire of the other”. In other words, what we desire is learned/enforced through social constructions and interactions. The most popular toy is always the one the other children want; and as soon as that toy is no longer desired by others, it becomes abject, redundant. We see this in fads and crazes; in the fashion machine’s ‘must-haves’; in what bodies matter, and correspondingly what bodies are unwanted and therefore undesireable.