The Scary Crow

“When the Other as scary crow is lost, then there is access to melancholy and suicide, figuratively or literally. And yet, our direction should be how to live without the scary crow, that is, without the other having to carry that burden. Thus, as a possible aid, this is an aphorism about desire: to ask nothing from anyone…”

Petros Patounas, Lacanian Psychoanalyst