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‘’’Le ''Le séminaire, Livre XX: Encore, 1972-1973’’’1973''. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1975.
English version: ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-1973''. Ed. J.-A. Miller. Trans. B. Fink. New York: Norton, 1998.
''Seminar XX'' is Lacan's major work on feminine sexuality. In particular he explores On Feminine Sexuality the question of feminine desire that was absent from his earlier theory Limits of the phallus. It is a short seminar with only 11 presentations Love and many Knowledge: The Seminar of these are rather enigmatic and aphoristicJacques Lacan, if they are not read in relation to the discussion of courtly love in ''Book XX Encore 1972-1973 (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'Jacques Lacan, 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 knowledgeBk 20).
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[[Lacan]] takes us on a startling psycholinguistic exploration of the bounds of [[love]] and [[knowledge]].
In the seminar ''Encore''Often controversial, always inspired, [[French]] [[intellectual]] [[Jacques Lacan proposed what he called "formulas ]] begins the twentieth year of sexuation" to set down his famous [[Seminar]] by weighing theories of the relationship between the [[desire]] for [[love]] and the basic structures attainment of male [[knowledge]] from such influential and diverse thinkers as [[Aristotle]], [[Marx]], and female sexuality[[Freud]].
From here he leads us through [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], and, naturally, [[psychoanalysis]] into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental [[human]] [[drive]]s.
==def==Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents [[Lacan]]'s most sophisticated work on [[love]], [[desire]], and [[jouissance]].
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<ref>Žižek==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, Sif 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]]''. (2000) ''[[The Fragile AbsoluteSeminar XX]], or Why '' develops the idea that the Christian Legacy '[[woman does not exist]]' and that she is Worth Fighting For'[[not-whole]]', London but also goes beyond the discussions of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]] to consider the relationship between ''[[jouissance]]'' and New York: Verso[[love]] and the idea of ''[[jouissance]]'' as the ultimate [[limit]] of [[human]] [[knowledge]]. p In the seminar ''[[Encore]]'', [[Lacan]] proposed what he called "[[formulas of sexuation]]" to set down the basic structures of [[male]] and [[female]] [[sexuality]]. 115, 116, 118, 143</ref></blockquote> ==More== ==See Also==
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==See Also==* [[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
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