This assortment bargains the 1st sustained, in-depth remark on Seminar XX, Encore, thought of the cornerstone of Lacan s paintings at the topics of sexual distinction, wisdom, jouissance, and love. even though Seminar XX used to be initially popularized as Lacan s treatise on female sexuality, those essays, through a few of at the present time s optimal Lacanian students, transcend female sexuality to deal with Lacan s major intertwining trouble with the rupture among truth and the genuine produced by means of smooth technology, and the consequences of this rupture for subjectivity, wisdom, jouissance, and the physique.
The essays make clear uncomplicated ideas, yet for readers already accustomed to Lacan additionally they supply subtle workings-through of the tougher and vague arguments in Encore either through tracing their old improvement throughout Lacan s uvre and by means of demonstrating their relation to specific philosophical, theological, mathematical, and clinical thoughts.
They disguise a lot of the terrain useful for realizing sexual distinction no longer by way of chromosomes, physique components, collection of sexual associate, or forms of sexual perform yet when it comes to one s place vis-a-vis the opposite and the type of jouissance one is ready to receive. In so doing, they make major interventions within the debates relating to intercourse, gender, and sexuality in feminist conception, philosophy, queer idea, and cultural studies."
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Lacan even makes a pun here, saying that this kind of jouissance is “hommosexual,” spelling it with two m’s, homme being the term for man in French. Regardless of whether one is male or female (those are the biological terms), and regardless of whether one’s partner is male or female, to enjoy in this way is to enjoy like a man. Regarding the term phallus, note that Lacan equates the phallus with the bar between the signifier and the signified (S/s) in Seminar XX (40/39). 18 Why the barrier between the signifier and the signified?
They can have both this hommosexual jouissance— ch01_SP_BRA_186012 5/9/02 9:32 AM Page 41 Knowledge and Jouissance 41 related to object a, and not to their partners as such—and the Other jouissance as well (Seminar XX, 78/84). For men, on the other hand, it seems to be an either/or. Does this reintroduce a fantasy dating back at least as far as Ovid, who has Tiresias say that a woman’s enjoyment is greater than a man’s? 5 phallic jouissance Other jouissance Men phallic jouissance Other jouissance Women Note that, since “man” and “woman” in this discussion do not correspond to male and female, Lacan’s discussions about relations between men and women can apply equally well to what are more conventionally referred to as “homosexual” relations, “homosexual” without the two m’s.
An earlier version of this chapter was delivered as a paper on April 17, 1998, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, at the invitation of Professor Briankle Chang of the Department of Communications. 2. Lacan might say that affect takes refuge in the body, the body as a representational site of the unconscious. 3. The latter often goes by the name of object a. ch01_SP_BRA_186012 44 5/9/02 9:32 AM Page 44 Bruce Fink 4. All references to Écrits here are to the French edition (Paris: Seuil, 1966), the pagination of which is provided in the margins of the new translation of Écrits: A Selection by Bruce Fink.