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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).