Desire Unto Death: Childsplay

Earlier on the week I noticed that in the course of Seminar II Lacan says the following: You can disprove Hegel but not the Song of Sixpence.[1] And I was delighted because I knew my presentation today would derive much more from what I owe to the likes of Sing-a-Song-of-Sixpence than to what the field of philosophy had to offer. My contribution to today's proceedings certainly - undeniably - owes a great deal to my memory of the many revolutions in our field in the mid-60's.…