Lacan on fantasy (6 of 9): Object a as object of fantasy

Why can we say that slogan ’Black Lives Matter’ attempts to speak to white fantasy? What could we describe as Barak Obama’s primal scene? We discuss racist fantasy, after briefly introducing Lacan’s notion of object a. Object a is the result of separation from the Other. This separation involves the subject locating themselves relative to the lack of the Other, responding to the Other’s lack with their own lack, so to speak. The resulting remainder of this separation is the object a: the fantasy object. We can think of this object a as the ’convexity of the subject’s lack’. What they are lacking is externalized and converted from a negativity to a positive feature, that is then experienced as a compelling feature in someone or something outside of me. We conclude by asking about white racist culture’s fascination with the (black) body in pieces. .