"...Kinder Surprise, one of the most popular confectionery products on sale in Europe, are empty chocolaté eggshells wrapped in brightly colored paper; when you unwrap the egg and crack the chocolaté shell open, you find inside a small plastic toy (or small parts from which a toy can be put together). A child who buys this chocolaté egg often unwraps it nervously and just breaks the chocolaté, not bothering to eat it, worrying only about the toy in the center - ; is not such a chocolate-lover a perfect case of Lacans motto ; "I love you, but, inexplicably, I love something in you more than yourself, and, therefore, I destroy you?" And, in effect, is this toy not l'objet petit a at its purest, the small object filling in the central void of our désire, the hidden treasure, agalma, at the center of the thing we désire?..."
