
The Drive, Episode 4
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Relationship Between Sexuality and Death
Lacan's work deals with what we experience as sex beings in relationship to the ultimate Cut, which is death. We can use signifiers to talk about death in part, if not in whole, because the signifier is death. The word he uses for breast in French can also mean womb. Even though people mixes they like resonances in which the signifier relies heavily on metaphor. It is a question of the breast specified in the function of weaning which prefigures castration. This is Lacan on the page. This is not him live.
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