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* In ''[[Encore]]'' [[Lacan ]] argues that woman would only enter in the sexual rapport ''quoad matrem'' (as a mother) and man ''quoad castrationem'' (phallic ''[[jouissance]]''). Hence there is no real rapport and love as well as speech make up for his absence. And he adds: "There is woman only as excluded by the nature of words,...for man she is on the side of truth and man does not know what to do with it." In ''Le savoir psychanalytique'' from 1972, Lacan argues: "I am not saying that speech exists because there is no sexual rapport. I am not saying either that there is no sexual rapport because speech is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that analytic discourse reveals to be specific to speaking human beings. The importance, the preeminence of what makes sex a semblance, the semblance of men and women. Between man and love, there is woman; between man and woman, there is a world; betwen man and the world, there is a wall. What is at stake in a serious love relationship between a man and a woman is castration. Castration is the means of adaptation to survival."* ''Le séminaire, Livre XX: Encore, Paris: Seuil, 1975''. ''The Seminar, Book XX: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: Encore'', New York: Norton, 1998.* Publication of Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis in French, transcribed and edited by Jacques-Alain Miller.* 30 May death of Caroline Lacan-Roger.* Publication of Seminar XI, the first of a series edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, at Editions du Seuil. * March Prodded by a growing number of feminists among his students, Lacan introduces in his seminar the “formulas of sexuation, ” which demonstrate that sexuality is not determined by biology, since another, so-called “feminine” position (i.e. not determined by the phallus) is also available to all speaking subjects next to the phallic law giving access to universality. * 30 May Death of Caroline Lacan-Roger in a road accident.