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Published in 1973, “L’Etourdit” was one of the [[French ]] [[philosopher ]] Jacques Lacan’s most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire [[body ]] of Lacan’s [[psychoanalytical ]] explorations, including his famous [[idea ]] that “there is no such [[thing ]] as a [[sexual ]] [[relationship]],” which seeks to undermine our [[certainties ]] [[about ]] intimacy and [[reality]].

In ''There’s No Such Thing as a [[Sexual Relationship]]'', [[Alain ]] [[Badiou ]] and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan’s short [[text]], [[thinking ]] “with” [[Lacan ]] about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to [[knowledge]]. Cassin considers the relationship of the [[real ]] to [[language ]] through a Sophist lens, while the Platonist Badiou unpacks [[philosophical ]] claims about [[truth]]. Each of their contributions echoes back to one [[another]], offering new ways of thinking about Lacan, his seminal [[ideas]], and his [[role ]] in advancing philosophical [[thought]].

Alain Badiou (PhD, [[Philosophy]], Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene [[Descartes ]] [[Chair ]] at the European Graduate [[School]]; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de [[Philosophie ]] in [[Paris]]. He is the [[author ]] of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, [[Being ]] and [[Event ]] (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato’s Republic (2013) and [[Jacques Lacan ]] [[Past ]] and [[Present ]] (2016).