But a phantasm, for its part, needs to
use something: its elaboration is bound up with the use of pleasure or suffering. The fact that the phantasm
uses up the individual is a sign of the
constraint that comes from the phantasm's own unity. The elaboration of the phantasm gives way to a state of
continuous compensation and hence to
exchanges. But for an exchange to take place, there must be an
equivalent, that is, the fabricated object must be worth something else, both in the sphere of the phantasm, elaborated at the expense of individual unity and in the external sphere, at the level of the individual itself.
Pierre Klossowski Living Currency (1970 trans 2017) p.61
