Seminar XX

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Seminar XIX Seminar XXI


1972 - 1973 Seminar XX Encore
Encore
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21 novembre 1972 Séminaire XX (1972-1973) "Encore" mp3

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 non-existence of the sexual rapport (with the sexuation formulas table) and 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, Book XX : On feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge : Encore. In this first session, Lacan speaks about love and jouissance.


20 février 1973 Séminaire XX (1972-1973) "Encore" mp3

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".


English translation

An English translation of Seminar VIII was made by a reading group associated with Jacques Lacan in Ireland and Cormac Gallagher from unedited French manuscripts, and arranged in a presentable form by Tony Hughes.


French

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bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-left:15px" | 21 novembre 1972 link
12 décembre 1972 link
19 décembre 1972 link
09 janvier 1973 link
16 janvier 1973 link
13 février 1973 link
20 février 1973 link
13 mars 1973 link
20 mars 1973 link
10 avril 1973 link
08 mai 1973 link
15 mai 1973 link
26 juin 1973 link

French versions of Lacan's Seminars Source: http://ecole-lacanienne.net