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Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

From Joel Dor’s Clinical Lacan pg 85:

The hysteric is the harshest judge when it comes to the ascent to the ideal of perfection. Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults. This despotic requirement inevitably causes symptoms to appear, of which the most striking is the hysteric’s permanent indecision with regard to everything. Whether it is a question of the most ordinary, everyday matters or of more significant, long-term ones, we find the same symptomatic strategy at work in, for example, the choice of a garment, a pair of shoes, a brand of toothpaste, or, ultimately, a romantic partner. Although the process of choosing eventually comes to an end because of sheer exhaustion, what is chosen remains the object of uncertainty, doubts, and regrets. The ceaseless negotiations back and forth that result from this only increase the initial hesitation, since no object that has been chosen is capable of reassuring or of serving its function more adequately than one that was rejected.

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