The theme, legendary: pleasure, love, female sexuality. In this seminar, Lacan explores the impossibility of the relationship between the sexes, each individual's autistic attachment to pleasure, the woman as "not whole," the erotic discourse as a substitute for contact, and the pleasurable dimension of unconscious knowledge.
The style, captivating: never has a psychoanalytic text utilized the ambiguity of language, the dynamics of the aphorism, and the baroque polyphony of references to such an extent.
The theoretical moment, transitional: the French psychoanalyst settles his accounts with mathematics and structural linguistics, while simultaneously intensifying the exploration of topology and the real. Through the confrontation of Freud with Aristotle and Marx, the problematic of Lacanian teaching emerges, which is so relevant today.
The Greek edition, bilingual and annotated: a valuable tool for the student of Lacan, providing the possibility of direct comparison with the French original.
