‘Objet a’ Explores Desire and Control in an Age When We “Touch Flat Screens More Than Our Lover’s Skin”

And it is likely to make you look and think at control, desire, intimacy, identity – and kleptomania – in a different way. ANN OREN Several things, but what I was starting with was the sense of touch. Here, I was thinking about the sense of touch today and what happens when we touch flat screens more than we touch our lover’s skin. I think they’re really deprived, and I was imagining zombie-like, hungry fingers – hungry to touch something. He’s obsessed with controlling his body, developing his body, and then he wants his body to also get attention.