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First off, Ashley Shelden’s explanation of Lacan was very helpful and interesting. I think Lacanian psychoanalysis says a lot about the real world in which we live as well. People all over the world are constantly seeking true meaning of life, which for thousands of years, have turned to religion for the answer.
Christianity, for example, offers Jesus Christ as the meaning behind everything from science to emotions, until it comes to sexuality. Just like in Lacan explains, sexuality becomes a void when searching to fulfill desires. The church directs its followers away from sex until “marriage” to only “procreate”.
Christianity allows its followers to identify with Jesus with the “word of the Lord” written in the Bible. Lacan says that language is synonymous with desire. People have this desire to seek meaning, hope and to ease fears, and in return they have these words that the Lord apparently once spoke.
Yet, once when human nature and sexual drives come into the question, the religion suppresses these desires in order to stay pure and innocent.
So with both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christianity, there are still questions that go unanswered and holes that don't get filled.