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===''Jouissance''===
The ''Seminar'' XX, which [[Jacques lacan|Jacques Lacan ]] called ''Encore'', was delivered between December 12, 1972 and June 26, 1975. It takes [[place]] at a turning point in French [[politics]] after the events of May 68, and in the teaching of Jacques Lacan. [...]
In ''Encore'' (whose cover shows Bernini's ''The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa''as it stands in the [[Church]] of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome) the puzzle of the [[discourses]] recurs again and again, but the issue unfolds in the [[dimension]] that rules Lacan's teaching at least since ''Seminar'' XVI ''D'un [[Autre]] à l'autre''—''From an Other to the other''— (just before [[1968]]!) until its very end, until it becomes almost the dominant [[category]], that is ''jouissance''. (''Jouissance''posited as an absolute, see Chapter XIII of the ''[[Seminar XVI]]'').
Thus this is no wonder that ''jouissance'' (of which one must not forget the [[legal]] origin, fruit and tenure) is introduced early in its opposition to the functional: "''Jouissance'' is what is useless." The [[superego]], the [[concept]] of [[Freud]]'s second [[topography]] to which he gave a repressive [[meaning]] ([[Kant]]'s [[Moral]] Law), Lacan did not consider it less brutal, but he also deems it [[obscene]], and changes its orientation by enjoining it ''Jouis!'' (Yes, I mean the Law, I heard, ''j'ouis'', her [[voice]], and she becomes my [[desire]]). And soon taking up residence in the field of sexuality, this approach brings about the following statements: a) "The ''jouissance'' of the Other, of the Other's [[body]] that symbolizes it, is not a [[sign]] of love." b) "Ultimately, one person's body is just a part of the Other's body." c) Finally,"…it is the Other who ''jouit''."<ref>Lacan J., Encore, [[The Seminar]] of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, 1972-1973, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, p.23.</ref> Then, "there is a [[hole]] there and that hole is called the Other."<ref>''Ibid'', p. 113</ref>] Later on Lacan will declare that "the Other doesn't [[exist]]."
===Sexuality===3. From then on a [[relationship]] between ''jouissance'' and sexuality is articulated (according to a [[topology]] that will be developed later on in the seminar), a relationship which cannot be reduced to the [[male]] and [[female]] orgasms, but one that will meet the obstacle of [[choice]] set up by [[psychoanalysis]], namely that "there is no [[sexual relationship]]" and that will be resolved by way of love, made up for its [[absence]]. "What makes up the [[Sexual Relationship|sexual relationship ]] is, quite precisely, love."<ref>''Ibid'', p. 44</ref>
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