Lacan on Fantasy (9 of 9): Negative objects

There are some objects in psychoanalysis that are essentially negative, such as Freud’s idea of the ’lost’ object (that we never actually had) that we ceaselessly attempt to re-find. Fantasy is all about staging the attempted recovery of such lost objects. Important also is the idea of the ’constitutive impossibility’ that fantasy obscures. Fantasy makes a type of impossibility - a thriving, vibrant London which is also less busy, less crowded, for example - seem somehow possible. In fantasy, we often opt rather to think of ourselves as victims rather than confront our ’castration’ (eek!). What though of situations when genuinely horrible things happen? Am I still subject to fantasy even when ’objectively’ terrible things have happened to me? Link to board: