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Book Title
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX
Publication Date
2023-01-27
ISBN
9780745682457
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
... or Worse : the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Xix
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Jacques Lacan
Item Length
8.9in
Publisher
Polity Press
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Number of Pages
274 Pages

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"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why so? They certainly tickle something in us. Lacan says what it is. It's about man and woman. There is neither accord nor harmony between man and woman. There's no programme, nothing has been predetermined: every move is a shot in the dark, which in modal logic is called contingency. There's no way out of it. Why is it so inexorable, that is, so necessary? It really has to be reckoned that this stems from an impossibility. Hence the theorem: 'There is no sexual relation.' The formula has become famous. In the place of what thereby punctures a hole in the real, there is a plethora of luring and enchanting images, and there are discourses that prescribe what this relation must be. These discourses are mere semblance, the artifice of which psychoanalysis has made apparent to all. In the twenty-first century, this is beyond dispute. Who still believes that marriage has a natural foundation? Since it's a fact of culture, one devotes oneself to inventing. One cobbles together different constructions from whatever one can. It may be better ... or worse. 'There is Oneness.' At the heart of the present Seminar, this aphorism, which hitherto went unnoticed, complements the 'there is no' of sexual relation, stating what there is. It should be heard as One-all-alone. Alone in jouissance (which is fundamentally auto-erotic) and alone in significance (outside any semantics). Here begins Lacan's late teaching. Everything he has already taught you is here, and yet everything is new, overhauled, topsy-turvy. Lacan had taught the primacy of the Other in the order of truth and the order of desire. Here he teaches the primacy of the One in its real dimension. He rejects the Two of sexual relation and that of signifying articulation. He rejects the Big Other, the fulcrum of the dialectic of the subject, disputing its existence, which he consigns to fiction. He depreciates desire and promotes jouissance. He rejects Being, which is mere semblance. Henology, the doctrine of the One, here outclasses ontology, the theory of Being. What about the symbolic order? Nothing more than the reiteration of the One in the real. Hence the abandoning of graphs and topological surfaces in favour of knots made of rings of string, each of which is an unlinked One. Recall that Seminar XVIII sighed for a discourse that would not be semblance. Well, with Seminar XIX, we have an attempt at a discourse that would take its point of departure in the real. The radical thought of modern Uni-dividualism." -- Jacques-Alain Miller

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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745682456
ISBN-13
9780745682457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Author
Jacques Lacan
Publication Name
... or Worse : the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Xix
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
274 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Bf175
Volume Number
, Book Xix
Table of Content
OF ONE SEX AND THE OTHER I. The small difference II. The function x III. From anecdote to logic IV. From necessity to inexistence THE OTHER: FROM SPEECH TO SEXUALITY V. Topology of speech (a talk at Sainte-Anne) VI. I ask you to refuse me my offering VII. The vanished partner (a talk at Sainte-Anne) VIII. What is involved in the Other THE ONE: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL REACH IX. In the field of the Unian X. Yad'lun XI. An issue of Ones (a talk at Sainte-Anne) XII. Knowledge about truth XIII. The founding of sexual difference XIV. Theory of the four formulae (a talk at Sainte-Anne) CODA XV. The desire to sleep XVI. Bodies captured by discourse APPENDICES Report on Seminar XIX, by Jacques Lacan Library of Seminar XIX, by Jacques-Alain Miller Translator's Notes Index
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
Dewey Decimal
150.195
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Psychology

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