215. M. De Kesel, “An Image, Not an Example: Some Statements on Lacan’s Aesthetical
Ethics,” unpublished paper.
216 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 247.
217. Ibid., p. 268 (my translation). On this issue, see also F. Regnault, Conférences d’esthétique
lacanienne(Paris: Seuil, 1997 ), p. 92.
218 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 187 (my translation).
219. On how beauty should be located at the level of the fundamental fantasy, see ibid.,
p. 239.
220. Ibid., p. 248 (my translation).
221. Ibid., p. 249.
222. Ibid., p. 247.
223. Ibid., p. 244.
224. Ibid., p. 286.
225. Commentators usually fail to acknowledge that, in Seminar VII, Lacan prudently fol-
lows Descartes’s ethical legacy, and repeatedly specifies that he is proposing a provisional
ethics, one which is expressed “in the form of a question” (ibid., p. 109 ), “in an ex-
perimental form” (ibid., p. 319 ), and couldlead to an impasse (ibid., p.19 2). Safouan is
therefore perfectly correct when he maintains that, against Lacan’s will, the ne céder pas
sur son désir“was soon turned into an imperative,” and thus “recuperated by the super-
ego” (Safouan, Lacaniana,p.15 5).
226 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 131 (my translation).
227. Ibid., p. 231.
228. Ibid., p. 232.
229. Ibid., p. 236 (emphasis added).
230. Ibid., p. 303 (my translation).
231. See ibid., p. 292 (in relation to the French Revolution) and p. 318 (in relation to the
Russian Revolution).
232. Ibid., p. 292.
233. Ibid., p. 259.
234. Ibid., p. 240.
235. See ibid., p. 318.
236. Ibid., pp.234‒235(emphasis added).
237. Ibid., p. 235.
238. Ibid., p. 77.
239. Ibid., p. 240.
240. Ibid., p. 259.notes to pages 176–184