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There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan

by Alain Badiou

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A philosophical return to Lacan’s “L’Étourdit”

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A philosophical return to Lacan’s “L’Étourdit”

Built around Jacques Lacan’s 1973 text “L’Étourdit,” this compact volume brings together Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin’s distinct engagements with psychoanalytic and philosophical questions. The title’s central proposition—“there is no such thing as a sexual relationship”—serves as a point of inquiry into intimacy, reality, knowledge, truth, and language. Cassin approaches the relation between the real and language through Sophist thought, while Badiou addresses Lacan’s philosophical claims about truth from a Platonist perspective. Their paired contributions position Lacan’s brief, demanding work as an ongoing site of dialogue between psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying Lacan and his psychoanalytic concepts
  • Students of continental philosophy, especially debates around truth and language
  • Those interested in Badiou and Barbara Cassin’s interpretations of Lacan

Themes

PsychoanalysisLacanian thoughtLanguage and the realTruth and knowledgeIntimacy and sexuality

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Book overview

Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality.

In There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan's short text, thinking "with" Lacan about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to knowledge. Cassin considers the relationship of the real to language through a Sophist lens, while the Platonist Badiou unpacks philosophical claims about truth. Each of their contributions echoes back to one another, offering new ways of thinking about Lacan, his seminal ideas, and his role in advancing philosophical thought.

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