Remember the boomerang example used in ‘Tarrying’?

I think I have found a more clear cut elaboration of this idea. Included is a nice prelude involving Miller’s introduction of the “two types of lack”:

Following Jacques-Alain Miller, a distinction has to be introduced here between two types of lack, the lack proper and the hole: lack is spatial, designating a void within a space, while the hole is more radical, it designates the point at which this spatial order itself breaks down (as in the “black hole” in physics). Therein resides the difference between desire and drive: desire is grounded in its constitutive lack, while drive circulates around a hole, a gap in the order of being. In other words, the circular movement of the drive obeys the weird logic of the curved space in which the shortest distance between the two points is not a straight line, but a curve: the drive “knows” that the shortest way to attain its aim is to circulate around its goal-object. (One should bear in mind here Lacan’s well-known distinction between the aim and the goal of the drive: while the goal is the object around which the drive circulates, its (true) aim is the endless continuation of this circulation as such.) (In Defense of Lost Causes, p. 327)