Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX

The Torus of Reason

Raul Moncayo, Barri Belnap, Greg Farr

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032543789
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003851394
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mind & Body in Philosophy
• Index: Psychology

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

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 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–ternal–ing’
• 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
• Bibliography
• Index