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In the seminar ''[[Encore]]'', [[Lacan]] proposed what he called "[[formulas of sexuation]]" to set down the basic structures of [[male]] and [[female]] [[sexuality]].
 
In the seminar ''[[Encore]]'', [[Lacan]] proposed what he called "[[formulas of sexuation]]" to set down the basic structures of [[male]] and [[female]] [[sexuality]].
  
==More==
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==Contents==
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# On jouissance
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# To Jakobson
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## Linguistricks
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## The sign that one is changing discourses
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## Signifierness by the bucketfull
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## The stupidity of the signifier
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## The enjoying substance
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# The function of the written
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## The unconscious is what is read
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## On the use of letters
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## S/s
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## Ontology, the master's discourse
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## Speaking of fucking
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## The unreadable
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# Love and the signifier
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## The other sex
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## Contingency of the signifier, routine of the signified
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## The end of the world and the "para-being"
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## Love makes up for the absence of the sexual relationship
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## The ones
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# Aristotle and Freud: the other satisfaction
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## Aristotle's headache (tracas)
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## The deficiency of jouissance and the satisfaction of blah-blah.
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## Development, the hypothesis of mastery.
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## Jouissance is inappropriate to the sexual relationship.
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# God and Woman's jouissance
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## Reading-loving, hating
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## Materialists
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## Jouissance of being
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## The male, polymorphous pervert
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## Mystics
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# A love letter
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## Coalescence and scission of ''a'' and S(<strike>A</strike>)
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## The beyondsex
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## Speaking ot no avail
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## Psychoanalysis is not a cosmology
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## Knowledge of jouissance
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# Knowledge and truth
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## Hateloving (''l'hainamoration'')
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## Knowledge about truth
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## Contingency of the phallic function
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## Freud's charity
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## Getting of on knowledge
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## The unconscious and woman
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# On the Baroque
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## Where it speaks, it enjoys, and it knows nothing
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# Rings of string
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# The rat in the maze
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## Language is knowledge's harebrained lucubration
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## About Llanguage
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## The unity of the body
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## The Lacanian hypothesis
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## Love, from contingency to necessity
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Le séminaire, Livre XX: Encore, 1972-1973. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1975. English version: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-1973. Ed. J.-A. Miller. Trans. B. Fink. New York: Norton, 1998.

On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX Encore 1972-1973 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Bk 20).


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Lacan takes us on a startling psycholinguistic exploration of the bounds of love and knowledge.

Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such influential and diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud.

From here he leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.

Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents Lacan's most sophisticated work on love, desire, and jouissance.


Description

Seminar XX is Lacan's major work on feminine sexuality.

In particular he explores the question of feminine desire that was absent from his earlier theory of the phallus.

It is a short seminar with only 11 presentations and many of these are rather enigmatic and aphoristic, if they are not read in relation to the discussion of courtly love in Seminar VII and the formulation of jouissance and drive in Seminar XI.

Seminar XX develops the idea that the 'woman does not exist' and that she is 'not-whole', but also goes beyond the discussions of feminine sexuality to consider the relationship between jouissance and love and the idea of jouissance as the ultimate limit of human knowledge.

In the seminar Encore, Lacan proposed what he called "formulas of sexuation" to set down the basic structures of male and female sexuality.

Contents

  1. On jouissance
  2. To Jakobson
    1. Linguistricks
    2. The sign that one is changing discourses
    3. Signifierness by the bucketfull
    4. The stupidity of the signifier
    5. The enjoying substance
  3. The function of the written
    1. The unconscious is what is read
    2. On the use of letters
    3. S/s
    4. Ontology, the master's discourse
    5. Speaking of fucking
    6. The unreadable
  4. Love and the signifier
    1. The other sex
    2. Contingency of the signifier, routine of the signified
    3. The end of the world and the "para-being"
    4. Love makes up for the absence of the sexual relationship
    5. The ones
  5. Aristotle and Freud: the other satisfaction
    1. Aristotle's headache (tracas)
    2. The deficiency of jouissance and the satisfaction of blah-blah.
    3. Development, the hypothesis of mastery.
    4. Jouissance is inappropriate to the sexual relationship.
  6. God and Woman's jouissance
    1. Reading-loving, hating
    2. Materialists
    3. Jouissance of being
    4. The male, polymorphous pervert
    5. Mystics
  7. A love letter
    1. Coalescence and scission of a and S(A)
    2. The beyondsex
    3. Speaking ot no avail
    4. Psychoanalysis is not a cosmology
    5. Knowledge of jouissance
  8. Knowledge and truth
    1. Hateloving (l'hainamoration)
    2. Knowledge about truth
    3. Contingency of the phallic function
    4. Freud's charity
    5. Getting of on knowledge
    6. The unconscious and woman
  9. On the Baroque
    1. Where it speaks, it enjoys, and it knows nothing
  10. Rings of string
  11. The rat in the maze
    1. Language is knowledge's harebrained lucubration
    2. About Llanguage
    3. The unity of the body
    4. The Lacanian hypothesis
    5. Love, from contingency to necessity


See Also

References