==Introduction==
==Back Cover==
[[Lacan]] takes us on a startling psycholinguistic exploration of the bounds of [[love]] and [[knowledge]]. 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]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], and, naturally, [[psychoanalysis]] into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental [[human]] [[drive]]s. Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents [[Lacan]]'s most sophisticated work on [[love]], [[desire]], and [[jouissance]].
==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 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 "para-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 blah-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
==Bibliography==
* ''Le séminaire, Livre XX: Encore, 1972-1973''. 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.
On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX Encore 1972-1973 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Bk 20).
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