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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: ) p.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.
