- Ibid.
19 4. Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 261.
19 6. See ibid., p. 202.
J. Lacan, Le séminaire livre XVII. L’envers de la psychanalyse, 1969–1970(Paris: Seuil, 1991 ),
p. 74.
Ibid., p. 75.
Ibid. A perfect overlapping of Kant’s “masochistic” ethics with Sade’s “sadistic” anti-
ethics is possible only because, at the desubjectivized level of “massive” jouissance,“the
other’s pain and the pain of the subject himself are one and the same thing” (The Semi-
nar. Book VII,p. 80 ). The same reflexivity of jouissanceis equally operative in Sade’s novels
at the level of the relationship between torturers and tortured.
200 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 177 ; see also ibid., p. 195.
Ibid., p. 177.
Ibid. (my translation).
Ibid., p. 80.
“The overthrowing of the order of the Law... can only take place through the elab-
oration of a myth” (B. Baas, “Le désir pur: à propos de ‘Kant avec Sade’ de Lacan,” in
Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory,ed. S. Zˇizˇek [London and New York: Rout-
ledge, 2003 ], p. 51 ).
205 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 177.
Ibid., p. 84.
Ibid., p. 7.
As Lacan himself will have it in Seminar XVII, “one transgresses nothing” (Le séminaire
livre XVII,p. 19 ).
209 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 84.
Ibid., p. 191.
Ibid., p. 108.
Ibid., p. 207.
Ibid.
A. Zupancˇicˇ is correct when she claims that “an ethics of the Real is notan ethics ori-
ented towards the Real, but an attempt to rethink ethics by recognizingand acknowledg-
ing the dimension of the Real... as it is alreadyoperative” (Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan
[London and New York: Verso, 2001 ], p. 4 ; emphases added). The problem with her
remarkable book, however, is that it progressively parts from this initial programmatic
statement; in my opinion, Zupancˇicˇ overestimates Lacan’s appreciation of and com-
patibility with Kantian ethics: indeed, for Lacan himself, the latter is precisely an ethics
towardthe Real....