ABarnes wrote:
but with Lacan it's always about desire and libidinal search for the Other. I try to keep Freud out of any training plan!
Hello
Desire for Lacan (at least later Lacan) is not "desire" classic definition, sex, libidinal search, or whatever in this direction.
Desire as described by Lacan does not exist in Freud theory.
Desire as described by Lacan is THE major item added by Lacan to the Freud theory.
Desire is the direction / trace of subject inner aspiration, in competition with :
Freudian fantasy / identification (binding the subject)
social environment (binding the subject)
Both "desire" & "fantasy / identifications" being initially crafted by contacts with Others (other peoples structuring the child mental environment)
Social environment continuously crafted by... the others
When Sartre says "Hell is other peoples" (in "Huis Clos"), in fact it seems it mean more "Hell is O/others", talking more about introjected judgement.
When training, or racing, your are probably relating to real inner aspiration or identification or social pressure. Hopefully first one, desire. May be you succeeded in keeping Freud out, but hopefully not Lacan :-)
Sorry, struggling to translate psychoanalytical terms to english. In english, more used to "crank", "stem", "HIIT" "keto-adaptation" and "glycogen depletion"