16 8. Ibid., pp. 55 , 316.
169. Before Lacan, J.-B. Botul had himself brilliantly operated a Sadeanization of Kant in a
series of outstanding lectures delivered in 19 4 6to a group of “Kantian integralists” at
New Königsberg, Paraguay: “I suggest that in Kantianism, as is the case with all moral-
ities which aim at the universal, there is a germ of perversion.... At the end of the day,
it is possible to reverse Kantian morality point by point.... One then obtains a set of
rules which we have known closely in this barbarous twentieth century: ‘Kill in such a
way that your killing could serve as a model for the entirety of humanity’” (J.-B. Botul,
La vie sexuelle d’Emmanuel Kant[Paris: Fayard, 2000 ]).
17 0. Epistle to the Romans 7 : 7 , in The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version(Nashville, TN:
Thomas Nelson Publishers, 199 0).
171 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 76.
172. Ibid., p. 79.
173. Ibid., p. 70.
174. Ibid., p. 314.
175. Ibid., p. 315.
17 6. All this is valid mutatis mutandisfor Sade’s anti-ethics of “evil sought for evil’s sake” (ibid.,
p. 197 ).
177. Ibid., p. 69. See also ibid., pp.77‒78.
178. Ibid., p. 77.
17 9. Ibid., p. 70.
18 0. Ibid., p. 76.
181. Ibid., p. 75.
182. It is therefore not a coincidence that the law of gravity is precisely the law that system-
atizes the way in which the earth “attracts” the sky.
183. Ibid., p. 70.
184. Ibid., p. 76.
185. Ibid.
186. This, of course, is something that Kantian philosophy does notassume.
187. Since “the field of the pleasure principle is beyond the pleasure principle” (The Seminar.
Book VII,p.10 4).
188. Ibid., p. 73. “The pleasure principle as an unpleasure principle, or least-suffering prin-
ciple... is calculated... to keep us a long way from our jouissance” (ibid., p. 185 ).
189. Ibid., p. 103.
19 0. Ibid., p. 73.
191. Ibid., p. 79.
19 2. Ibid., p. 80.notes to pages 170–176