Vol 41 (2) 2023
“THAT’S NOT IT” Alenka Zupančič .
SEX HAPPENS HOW NOT TO MISREAD THAT ‘THERE IS NO SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP’ Arthur Sollie
WHAT REMAINS HIDDEN BEHIND SEXUATION? THREE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ‘NOT ALL’ Christian Fierens
EMBARRASSMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE. A PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT ON LACAN’S FORMULAE OF SEXUATION Gertrudis Van de Vijver
ABOUT A DISCOURSE THAT IS NOT MYSTICAL, OR WORSE, STILL SOME NOTES ON THE MYSTICAL IN LACAN, SEMINAR XX: ENCORE Marc De Kesel
LACAN ON THE MYSTICAL ‘JOUISSANCE OF BEING’ Jelica Šumič Riha
LACAN ON THE MYSTICAL ‘JOUISSANCE OF BEING’
Summary: It is not by chance that in Seminar Encore Lacan criticizes the reduction of the mystical jouissance to a substitute of the phallic relation. Indeed, what is aimed at in mysticism, in Lacan’s reading, is not the reduction of the Other to the One. It is rather...
ABOUT A DISCOURSE THAT IS NOT MYSTICAL, OR WORSE, STILL SOME NOTES ON THE MYSTICAL IN LACAN, SEMINAR XX: ENCORE
Summary: With his twentieth seminar entitled Encore (Still, 1970-1971), Jacques Lacan places a ‘point’ at the end of a sentence constituted by the combined titles of the eighteenth (Of a Discourse that Might Not Be a Semblance, 1971-1972) and nineteenth (... Or Worse,...
EMBARRASSMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE. A PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT ON LACAN’S FORMULAE OF SEXUATION
Summary: This paper articulates the idea that the drive to know is the key to sexuality, and that sexuality is the key to subjectivation. It approaches Lacan’s formulae of sexuation starting from the background of Frege’s distinction between function (predicate) and...
WHAT REMAINS HIDDEN BEHIND SEXUATION? THREE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ‘NOT ALL’
Summary: The first interpretation of Lacan’s ‘not all’ seems obvious: it would be the promotion of particular sentences (it remains in the hysterical discourse). Behind the formulae of sexuation, two true interpretations usually remain hidden: firstly the signifier of...
SEX HAPPENS HOW NOT TO MISREAD THAT ‘THERE IS NO SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP’
Summary: The common sense idea about sexuality is at odds with Lacan’s counterintuitive formula that ‘there is no sexual relationship’. But there is also a common sense idea about how to understand Lacan’s formula: sexuality will never be fully satisfying, it will...
“THAT’S NOT IT”
Summary: Lacan’s seminar Encore is often read, and not unjustly, as a seminar on enjoyment, jouissance, and especially ‘other jouissance’ or jouissance of the Other, while the topic of desire, so important in Lacan’s earlier work, seems to fade into the background....