The original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others? (Slavoj Žižek)

The original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others?

Slavoj Žižek

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