Human beings are instruments of drives rather than owners of them

Evidence

Once again, though, we must qualify this claim with the further observation that human beings are not the “owners” of desires and drives — they don’t “have” them. Rather, human beings are the playing out of these impulses, instruments through which trauma is registered. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 137

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher’s core reformulation: drives don’t belong to subjects; subjects are their playing-out.