THE STRUCTURE OF COMPULSION Lived experience frequently presents a background affective charge of friction or felt incompleteness, distinguishable from any particular, bounded episode of discomfort. This incompleteness is not a clinical deficit or a curable pathology to be eradicated, but the baseline friction of finite embodiment. The self that experiences this incompleteness as its own is not a self-subsisting entity but a configuration continually constituted through embodiment, others,…