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''Le séminaire, Livre XX{| style="line-height:2.0em;width:100%;text-align:justify;border-spacing:8px;"|style="width:100%;border:0px solid #cccccc;background-color:#ffffff;vertical-align:top"|{| width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top;background-color:#ffffff"|-|style="text-align:justify;color: Encore, 1972#000;line-1973''height:2. Paris5em;align: Editions du Seuil. 1975.justify;"|English version{| align="center" style="width: ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX200px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left: Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge 10px;"|width="100px"||width="100px"||-| [[{{Y}}|1972-1973]]| ''. Ed. J.-A. Miller. Trans. B. Fink. New York: Norton, 1998.[[Encore]]''<BR>[[Encore]]|}
On Feminine Sexuality {| class="wikitable" width="100%"cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" style="background:#ffffff; width:100%; text-align:center; line-height:2.0em;"|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="110px" | [[{{Y}}|21 novembre 1972]]| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="" | ''[[Seminar|Séminaire XX (1972-1973) "Encore"]]| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50px" | [http://www.nosubject.com/archive/media/Lacan-Jacques_Seminaire-XX-Encore_21-novembre-1972.mp3 mp3]|-| colspan="3" style="text-align:justify" |First session. « About jouissance ». Published in french as early as in 1975, Encore may be the most emblematic Lacan's Séminaire. First, plenty of ideas developped in it are significant and will renew psychoanlytic theory for years; then, Lacan's style reaches its highest point in the countless ways he distorts language and plays with it. During Encore, the final formalization of the Limits non-existence of Love the sexual rapport (with the sexuation formulas table) and Knowledge: the full completion of jouissance's theory will progressively give way to what will become the topologic period of Lacan's teaching. In the end of Encore, he introduces his famous booromean knot on which he'll work during his last 8 years. The US edition is called The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX : On feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge : Encore 1972-1973 (Seminar of Jacques . In this first session, Lacan, Bk 20)speaks about love and jouissance.|}
{| class="wikitable" width=Back Cover"100%"cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" style="background:#ffffff; width:100%; text-align:center; line-height:2.0em;"|-| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100px" | [[Lacan{{Y}}|20 février 1973]] takes us on a startling psycholinguistic exploration of the bounds of | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="" | ''[[loveSeminar|Séminaire XX (1972-1973) "Encore"]] and | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="50px" | [[knowledge]http://www.nosubject.com/archive/media/Lacan-Jacques_Seminaire-XX-Encore_20-fevrier-1973.mp3 mp3]|-| colspan="3" style="text-align:justify" |A central (and really beautiful) session in this central Séminaire. Lacan speaks about the specificity of the feminine jouissance and the mystical jouissance. In the published version, the chapter is called "Dieu et la jouissance de La Femme" ("God and the jouissance of The Woman »).extract : "And why not interpreting a face of the Other, the face of God, like supported by feminine jouissance". |}
Often controversial, always inspired, [[French]] [[intellectual]] [[Jacques Lacan]] begins the twentieth year of his famous [[Seminar]] by weighing theories of the relationship between the [[desire]] for [[love]] and the attainment of [[knowledge]] from such influential and diverse thinkers as [[Aristotle]], [[Marx]], and [[Freud]].
From here he leads us through [[mathematics]]<!--1969-1970<b>Le séminaire, [[philosophy]]Livre XVII: L'envers de la psychanalyse.</b><br>French: (texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller), [[religion]]Paris: Seuil, and, naturally, [[psychoanalysis]] into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental [[human]] [[drive]]s1991.<br>English: unpublished.
Anticipated by English{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Seminar I|The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II : The Ego in Freud's most sophisticated work on Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)]]. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. Trans. [[loveSylvana Tomaselli]]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Paperback, Language: English, ISBN: 0393307093. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393307093/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [desirehttp://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393307093/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393307093/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393307093/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393307093/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small>|}<BR>{| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Seminar I|Le séminaire, Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse]]. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. Paris: Seuil, 1977. 374 pages, Language: French, ISBN: 2020047276. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], and [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [jouissancehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk]or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020047276/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small>|}-->|-|}
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|21 novembre 1972]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|12 décembre 1972]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|19 décembre 1972]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|09 janvier 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|16 janvier 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|13 février 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|20 février 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|13 mars 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|20 mars 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|10 avril 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|08 mai 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|15 mai 1973]]
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| bgcolor=“#ffffff” style=“padding-left:15px” | [[{{Y}}|26 juin 1973]]
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==Description==
''Seminar XX'' is [[Lacan]]'s major work on [[feminine]] [[sexuality]].
In particular he explores the question of [[feminine]] [[desire]] that was absent from his earlier theory of the [[phallus]]. |- It is a short [[seminar]] with only 11 presentations and many of these are rather enigmatic and aphoristic, if they are not read in relation to the discussion of [[courtly love]] in ''[[Seminar VII]]'' and the formulation of ''[[jouissance]]'' and [[drive]] in ''[[Seminar XI]]''. ''[[Seminar XX]]'' develops the idea that the '[[woman does not exist]]' and that she is '[[not|}<!--whole]]', but also goes beyond the discussions of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]] to consider the relationship between ''[[jouissance]]'' and [[love]] and the idea of ''[[jouissance]]'' as the ultimate [[limit]] of [[human]] [[knowledge]]. In the seminar ''[[Encore]]'', [[Lacan]] proposed what he called "[[formulas of sexuation]]" to set down the basic structures of [[male]] and [[female]] [[sexuality]]. ==Contents==# On jouissance# To Jakobson## Linguistricks## The sign that one is changing discourses## Signifierness by the bucketfull## The stupidity of the signifier## The enjoying substance# The function of the written## The unconscious is what is read## On the use Start of letters## S/s## Ontology, the master's discourse## Speaking of fucking## The unreadable# Love and the signifier## The other sex## Contingency of the signifier, routine of the signified## The end of the world and the "pararight-being"## Love makes up for the absence of the sexual relationship## The ones# Aristotle and Freud: the other satisfaction## Aristotle's headache (tracas)## The deficiency of jouissance and the satisfaction of blahcolumn -blah.## Development, the hypothesis of mastery.## Jouissance is inappropriate to the sexual relationship.# God and Woman's jouissance## Reading-loving, hating## Materialists## Jouissance of being## The male, polymorphous pervert## Mystics# A love letter## Coalescence and scission of ''a'' and S(<strike>A</strike>)## The beyondsex|}## Speaking ot no avail## Psychoanalysis is not a cosmology## Knowledge of jouissance# Knowledge and truth## Hateloving (''l'hainamoration'')## Knowledge about truth## Contingency of the phallic function## Freud's charity## Getting of on knowledge## The unconscious and woman# On the Baroque## Where it speaks, it enjoys, and it knows nothing# Rings of string# The rat in the maze## Language is knowledge's harebrained lucubration## About Llanguage## The unity of the body## The Lacanian hypothesis## Love, from contingency to necessity ==See Also== ==References==<references/>* [[Žižek, Slavoj]]. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p. 115, 116, 118, 143 [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Seminars]][[Category:Sexuality]][[Category:Works]]__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__
