Description
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX examines the themes presented in Encore, the seminar presented by Lacan between 1972 and 1975.
Raul Moncayo, Barri Belnap, and Greg Farr focus on Lacan’s presentation of the theory of the Third Jouissance, clarifying the difference between jouissance as a concept and as a word. The authors argue that although there are many words that Lacan uses for jouissance, there are only five concepts of jouissance: the first is inconvenient, the second is convenient and inconvenient, while the last three are convenient and constructive.
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX will be essential reading for academics and scholars of Lacanian studies, Lacanian analysts, and readers interested in Lacan’s theories of the 1970s.
Table of Contents
1 Writing, Love, and the Four Levels of the Signifier 2 “Idizwadidiz” 3 The Metapsychology Past, Present, and Future 4 Listening to Signifiers and Hearing the Effect of Meaning 5 Clarity and Conceptual Uncertainty (The Universe as a Flower of Rhetoric) 6 Apparatus of Jouissance, a New Ego in the Real, and the Question of a Protolanguage 7 S1–S0 Relations: You Only Know the Unmarked Zero by First Knowing the One Mark 8 Being, Language, Love, and ‘Be–ernal–ng’ 9 A Logic and a Grammar That Cannot Be “Arithmetized” 10 The Ethics of the Second Death in Psychoanalysis 11 The Language of the One and the Language of the Other 12 Sexuation and Three Forms of Jouissance Beyond the Phallus 13 Differences among Femininity, Mystical Jouissance, and Psychosis 14 Agape and Eros, the G-d of the Law and the G-d of Jouissance 15 The Different Meanings of S2, the Signifier as Semblance 16 Significance, Knotting, and ‘Naughting’ 17 Formalization, Scaling, and Measurement 18 Gender Discourse, the Phallus, and the Objet a 19 Connaissance and Savoir (Rings of String, Topology, and Computation) 20 Does a Rat Have Being? The Being of the Subject as a Necessary Hypothesis (Experienced or Supposed) 21 Lalangue, Unconscious Knowledge, and the Soul
