After reading Judy Butler’s Subjects of Desire in tandem with The Fragile Absolute and The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, I’ll briefly outline the role of desire as constituted in Hegel and subsequently interpreted by Kojeve and Butler. Butler discusses the interpretation of desire in the Phenomenology of Spirit by Kojeve in his influential lectures …
"A desire redoubled is love. But redoubled love becomes delusion." Lacan
