Examining A Clinic Of The Not-All

When Lacan introduced the notion of the not-all into psychoanalytic knowledge, at the beginning of the seventies - more than thirty years ago then - his goal was 'to draw out (faire sortir) something new about feminine sexuality'. He says it explicitly in the seminar Encore: 'We have to pave the way by means of an elaboration of the not-all. This is my real topic this year, behind this 'Encore', and it is one of the meanings of my title.…