Chris’s Reviews > From an Other to the other, Book XVI > Status Update

“…whereas he doesn't know all that much himself - is he who takes upon himself the task of propping up the subject-supposed-to-know.”

“Everything Freud introduced by way of a logic of sex is based on a single term, which is truly its original term: a lack known as castration. This essential "minus" is of a logical nature, and nothing can function without it. All normativity is, for both men and women, organized around the transmission of a lack.”

“They conclude therefrom that if the subject were no longer divided, jouissance would be refound. Yet we have to be very careful here. The subject determines the structure of jouissance, but all we can hope for from it, until things change radically, are recovery practices.”