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[[Image:Sem7.jpg|thumb|right|'''L'éthique de la psychanalyse.''']]
1959-1960  ''Le séminaire, Livre VII: L'éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959-1960'' .French: French: (texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller), Paris: Editions du Seuil, . 1986.Englishversion: ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (edited by Jacques, 1959-1960''. Ed. J.-Alain A. Miller), New York. Trans. D. Porter. London: NortonRoutledge, 1992. This seminar has been crucial for the wider dissemination of Lacanian ideas in the humanities and social sciences and it provides a constant reference point for Zizek as well as feminist critics.The seminar contains Lacan's only reference to ''das Ding'' (the Thing) as well as his reflections on sublimation and ''jouissance''. The seminar is probably most well known though for Lacan's discussion of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ''Antigone'', where he elaborates one of his most influential definitions of the ethical act - ' not to give way on one's desire' - and feminine sexuality in relation to courtly love poetry. This seminar is a very accessible and essential reading.   
At the root of the ethics is desire, but a desire marked by the "fault". Analysis' only promise is austere: it is "the entrance into-the-I," l'entrée-en-Je. "I must come to the place where the Id was," where the analysand discovers, in its absolute nakedness, the truth of his desire. The end of the cure is then the purification of desire. Lacan makes three statements: one is only guilty of "having given in on one's desire"; "the hero is the one who can be betrayed with impunity"; goods exist, but "there is no other good than the one that can pay the price of the access to desire," a desire that is only valid insofar as it is desire to know. Lacan laudes Oedipus at Colonus who calls down curses before dying, and he associates him with Antigone, walled up alive, who has not given in at all. Both have rejected the right to live in order to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - entre-deux-morts - that is immortality.
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