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"The Thing is thus presented to the subject as his Sovereign Good, but if the subject transgresses the pleasure principle and attains this Good, it is experienced as suffering/evil … because the subject ‘cannot stand the extreme good that this Thing may bring to him’. It is fortunate, then, that the Thing is usually inaccessible."

- Dylan Evans, An introductory dictionary of Lacanian psychoanalysis (entry for “Thing”)