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At the end of the Ethics of Psychoanalysis, the seminar in which the central question of the relationship between action and the desire that inhabits us is explored in its tragic dimension, Lacan reminds us again of this other, comic dimension:
However little time I have thus far devoted to the comic here, you have been able to see that there, too, it is a question of the relationship between action and desire, and of the former's fundamental failure to catch up with the latter.
(SVII, p. 313)
Indeed, the “relationship between action and desire” is what defines the field of ethics,
This seminar proves the importance Lacan attributed to the question of ethics.
