There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan

by Alain Badiou

2020-11-25 09:24:09

Published in 1973, "L''Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan''s most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan''s psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no s... Read more

Published in 1973, "L''Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan''s most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan''s psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality.

In There''s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan''s short text, thinking "with" Lacan about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to knowledge. Cassin considers the relationship of the real to language through a Sophist lens, while the Platonist Badiou unpacks philosophical claims about truth. Each of their contributions echoes back to one another, offering new ways of thinking about Lacan, his seminal ideas, and his role in advancing philosophical thought.

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Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0 in
Print pages136
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date March 28, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780231157940
Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. With Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek, he has reclaimed for the radical left the concepts of being, truth and the subject....

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