My point of departure will be a passage in Lacan's Encore Seminar in which he unpacks the first "sentence" he had given his audience, or rather written for them on the blackboard, during their first meeting. Lacan had written: "Jouissance of the Other," of the Other with a capital O, "of the body of the Other who symbolizes the Other, the sign of love." A week later, Lacan returned to this dense formula, adding that …showed first 75 words of 4037 total…

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