117. Ibid., p. 209.
118. Ibid., p. 206 (emphasis added).
119. Ibid.
12 0. Ibid., p. 209.
121 .The Seminar. Book III,p. 171.
122. Ibid. (emphasis added).
123. Ibid., p. 96.
124. Ibid.
125 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 201.
126. Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis,p. 181.
127 .The Seminar. Book III,p. 96.
128. Ibid., p. 177 (emphasis added).
129. Ibid.
13 0. See Le séminaire livre V,p. 186.
131 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 204.
13 2.The Seminar. Book III,p.17 6.
13 3. Ibid., p. 172.
13 4. Ibid., p.17 6.
13 5. Ibid.
13 6.Le séminaire livre IV,p.19 0.
13 7. See ibid: “Woman has much more difficulty than the little boy in providing an en-
trance for the reality of what comes to pass on the side of the uterus and of the vagina
in a dialectic of desire.”
13 8. Ibid., p. 153. This also explains the following apparently nonsensical statement: “The
penis in question is not the real penis, but the penis insofar as woman has it—that is,
insofar as she does not have it” (ibid., p.15 2).
13 9. Ibid., p. 153.
14 0. Ibid., p.19 0.
141. See ibid., p. 110.
142. Ibid., p. 203.
143. See ibid., p.15 4.
14 4. It is against the background of Gestalttheory that one should interpret Lacan’s sarcastic
statement according to which the female sex is “less desirable than the male sex” be-notes to pages 82–91