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[[Image:DIAGRAM.jpg|centerright|The diagram of sexual difference]]
In the [[seminars|seminar]] of [[chronology|1970-1]] [[Jacques Lacan]] tries to [[formalize]] his [[sexual difference|theory of sexual difference]] by means of [[mathemes|formulae]] derived from [[symbolic]] [[logic]].
The [[formulae of sexuation]] appear at the top of the diagram.
===The Male Side===
Thus the formulae on the male side are [[Image:form1.jpg]] (= there is at least one x which is not submitted to the phallic function) and [[Image:form3.jpg]] (= for all x, the phallic funciton is valid).
===The Female Side===The formulae on the feamle female side are [[Image:form2.jpg]] (= there is not one x which is not submitted to the phallic function) and [[Image:form4.jpg]] (= for not all x, the phallic function is valid).
The last formula illustrates the relationship of [[woman]] to the logic of the not-all.
===The Sexual Relationship===
What is most striking is that the two propositions on each side of the diagram seem to contradict each other:
However, there is no symmetry between the two sides (no sexual relationship); eahc side represents a radically different way in which the [[sexual relationship]] can misfire.<ref>{{S20}} p.53-4</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Sexual Difference]]
* [[Sexual Relationship]]
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