1) The paper discusses the concept of "borderline desire" where borderline individuals unconsciously seek emotional turbulence because this represents their primary object of desire, which is the disruptive maternal object from early life.
2) This turbulence then becomes an internalized object that the individual seeks to recreate through cultivating distressing situations or interactions.
3) The author provides examples from a borderline patient who seemed to experience profound emotional storms as a "familiar place" and object of desire, feeling closest to the therapist when they provoked such anguish.
4) It is proposed that for these individuals, the primary object is less a representation and more an "effect" or recurring disruption within themselves that they feel compelled
1) The paper discusses the concept of "borderline desire" where borderline individuals unconsciously seek emotional turbulence because this represents their primary object of desire, which i…