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==Jacques Lacan==
===There is No Relation Between the Sexes===
[[Lacan]] first proposes his famous [[formula]]: ''il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel'' in 1970,<ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar XVII|Le Séminaire. Livre XVII. L'envers de la psychanalyse, 1969-70]]''. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1991: 134</ref> and takes it up again in his [[seminar]] of 1972-3.<ref>{{S20}} p. 17</ref>
This formula is usually translated into [[English]] as "There is no such [Lacan[thing]] first proposes his famous formula: ''il n'y as a pas de rapport sexuel'' in 1970,<ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar XVII|Le Séminaire. Livre XVII. L'envers de la psychanalyse, 1969-70sexual]]''. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Millerrelationship]]. Paris: Seuil", 1991: 134</ref> and takes it up again in his which is misleading since [[Lacan]] is certainly not denying that [[seminarpeople]] of 1972-3.<ref>{{S20}} p. 17</ref> have sex!
This The formula is usually translated into English as might be better rendered "There is no such thing as a sexual relationshiprelation between the [[sexes]]", which thus emphasizing that it is misleading since not primarily the [[act]] of '''sexual intercourse''' that [[Lacan]] is certainly not denying that people have sex! referring to but the question of the relation between the [[sexual difference|masculine sexual position]] and the [[sexual difference|feminine sexual position]].
===Sexual Difference===The formula might be better rendered "There is no relation between the sexes", thus emphasizing that it is not primarily the condenses a [[actnumber]] of '''sexual intercourse''' that points in [[Lacan]] is referring 's approach to but the question of the relation between the masculine [[sexual position and the feminine sexual position. difference]]:
The formula thus condenses a number ====Other of points in Lacan's approach to Langage====1. There is no direct, unmediated relation between the question of [[sexual difference|male]] and [[sexual difference|female sexual position]], because the [[Other]] of [[language]] stands between [[them]] as a [[third]]:party.<ref>{{S20}} p. 64</ref>
1. There is no direct, unmediated relation between the <blockquote>"Between [[male ]] and [[female sexual position, because the ]] [[Otherhuman]] of beings there is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all [[languagesexuality]] stands between them as a third partyis marked by the signifier."<ref>{{S20L}} p(l975b) "[[Conférence à Genève sur le symptôme]]." ''Les Block-[[Notes]] de la [[psychanalyse]]''. Brussels. 64</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"Between male and female human beings there One consequence of this is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all sexuality that it is marked not possible to define [[perversion]] by reference to a supposedly [[nature|natural form]] of the signifier[[sexual relationship]] (as [[Freud]] did)."<ref>{{L}} l975b</ref>
One consequence of this is that it [[Heterosexuality]] is thus not possible to define perversion by reference to a supposedly [[natural form of the sexual relationship (as Freud did)]] but [[normative]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 223</ref>
Heterosexuality ====Asymmetry====2. There is thus not natural but normative.<ref>{{Ec}} pno reciprocity or symmetry between the [[sexual difference|male]] and [[sexual difference|female sexual positions]] because the [[symbolic order]] is fundamentally asymmetrical; there is no corresponding [[signifier]] which could [[signify]] [[Woman]] in the same way that the [[sexual difference|male]] [[sex]] is [[symbolize]]d. 223</ref>
 2. There is no reciprocity or symmetry between the male and female positions because the [[Symbolic]] order is fundamentally asymmetrical; there is no corresponding signifier which could signify [[Woman]] in the same way that the male sex is symbolised.  There is only one [[signifier]], the [[phallus]], which governs the relations between the sexes[[sex]]es.<ref>{{E}} p. 289</ref>
There is thus no [[symbol]] for a symmetrical [[sexual relationship]]: "the sexual relationship cannot be written."<ref>{{S20}} p. 35</ref>
---====Love====3. Relations between men and [[women ]] can never be [[harmonious]]; "The most naked [[rivalry ]] between men and women is eternal."<ref>{{S2}} p. 263</ref>  [[Love]] is no more than an [[illusion]] designed to make up for the [[absence]] of harmonious relations between the sexes (whether presented in mythical terms, as in Plato's Symposium, or in psychoanalytic terms, as in Balint's concept of [[love|genital love]]).
[[Love]] is no more than an [[illusion]] designed to make up for the [[absence]] of harmonious relations between the [[sex]]es (whether presented in [[mythical]] [[terms]], as in [[Plato]]'s [[Symposium]], or in [[psychoanalytic]] terms, as in [[Balint]]'s [[concept]] of [[love|genital love]]).
====Drives====4. The [[drive|sexual drives]] are directed not towards a "[[whole ]] person" but towards [[part-object]]s.
There is therefore no such thing as a [[sexual relationship]] between two [[subject]]s, only between a [[subject]] and a ([[partial]]) object.
For the man, the [[objet (petit) a|object a]] occupies the [[place ]] of the [[missing ]] partner, which produces the [[matheme]] of [[fantasy]] (SOa); in other [[words]], the [[Woman]] does not [[exist]] for the man as a [[real]] [[subject]], but only as a [[fantasy]] [[object]], the [[cause]] of his [[desire]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 58</ref>
====Woman and Mother====
5. [[Woman]] cannot function sexually qua [[Woman]] but only qua [[mother]]; "[[Woman]] begins to function in the sexual relationship only as mother."<ref>{{S20}} p. 36</ref>
5. [[Woman]] cannot function sexually qua [[Woman]] but only qua mother; "[[Woman]] begins to function in the sexual relationship only as mother."<ref>{{S20}} p. 36</ref>====Sex and Meaning====6. As something rooted in the [[Realreal]], [[sex ]] is opposed to [[meaning]]; and "sex, in opposing itself to [[sense]], is also, by definition, opposed to relation, to [[communication]]."<ref>Copjec, Joan. 1994: 21</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Desire]]
* [[Drive]]
* [[Existence]]
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* [[Fantasy]]
* [[Language]]
* [[Love]]
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* [[Mother]]
* [[Part Object]]
* [[Perversion]]
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* [[Phallus]]
* [[Sexual difference]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Symbol]]
* [[Symbolic]]
* [[Woman]]
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==References==
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