La Femme Donne A La Jouissance D'Oser Le Masque De La Repetition

Lacan's phrase can be translated thus: 'The woman gives to jouissance to dare the mask of repetition'. However, this morning during the congress, Jacqueline Rose proposed another more easily understood translation: 'The woman issues to jouissance the challenge of wearing the mask of repetition'. You will find this quotation from Lacan in Seminar XVII, L'envers de la psychanalyse, in the session of 11th February 1970. In French, it is indeed a very poetic and beautiful phrase since it carries with it the promise of a gift, the gift that the woman should bring to jouissance in daring to make use of the semblant as a way to jouir.…