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[[Desire]] has to be placed at the heart of [[analysis|analytic]] [[theory]] and [[practice]]: the title of the [[seminar]] does not indicate a mere juxtaposition of the two [[terms]], it ties [[them]] around the essential function of [[language]]. [[Desire]], if the [[libido]] is its [[psychic energy]], indicates the [[subject]]'s dependency on the [[signifier]]s which constitute the [[structure]] proper. This is what the [[cure]], based on [[speech]], must make clear beyond the [[analysand]]'s [[demand]]. [[Lacan]] even asserts that "[[desire]] is its own [[interpretation]]."

[[Slavoj Zizek]] [[notes]] that for [[Lacan]] the [[phallus]] is the pure [[signifier]] that stands for its own opposite, that it functions as the [[signifier]] of [[castration]]. The transition from pre-[[symbolic]] [[antagonism]] (the [[Real]]) to the [[symbolic order]] where [[signifier]]s are related to meaning takes place by way of this pure [[signifier]], without [[signified]]. "In [[order]] for the field of meaning to emerge, for the series of [[signifier]]s to [[signify]] something, there must be a [[signifier]] that stands for [[nothing]], a [[signify]]ing element whose very [[presence]] stands for the [[absence]] of [[meaning]], or rather for the [[absence]] <i>tout court</i>." This [[nothing]] is the [[subject]] itself, "the [[subject]] <i>[[qua]]</i> [[S]]." This [[Lacan]]ian [[matheme]] designates the [[subject]] deprived of all [[content]].

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[[Category:Seminars]]

[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]