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==="Woman Does Not Exist"===
It is also in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] takes up his controversial formula, first advanced in the [[seminar]] of 1970-1, "Woman does not exist" (''la femme n'existe pas''),<ref>{{L}} 1973a: 60</ref>), which he here rephrases as "there is no such thing as Woman" (''il n'y a pas La femme'').<ref>{{S20}} p.68</ref>).
As is clear in the original French, what [[Lacan]] puts into question is not the noun "[[woman]]", but the definite article which precedes it.
In French the definite article indicates universality, and this is precisely the characteristic that [[women]] [[lack]]; [[women]] "do not lend themselves to generalisation, even to phallocentric generalisation."<ref>{{L}} (1975b) "Conférence à Genève sur le symptôme", ''Les Block-Notes de la psychanalyse'', Brussels.</ref>
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