There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship : : Two Lessons on Lacan / / Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Badiou, Alain,; Cassin, Barbara,
• MitwirkendeR: Badiou, Alain,; Cassin, Barbara,; Reinhard, Kenneth,
• TeilnehmendeR: Reinhard, Kenneth.; Spitzer, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Lacan's Works Cited in the Text -- Introduction to Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan -- Authors' Introduction -- Ab-sense, or Lacan from A to D -- Formulas of "L'Étourdit" -- Notes -- Index