Issue 43: Editorial

This issue of The Letter concentrates on Lacan's heterogeneous topology in L’étourdit (1972) as an application of his “there is no sexual rapport” to saying, and on Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening, which anticipated both Freud's theory of sexuality and Lacan's thinking on this real of sex. While the first part of L’étourdit's “second turn”, translated here by Cormac Gallagher, ranges from the topology of surfaces to the matheme, it understands the second of Lacan's feminine formulae of sexuation as an a- sphere which sheds light on the impossibility of the universal.…