Looking back at On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance with L’Étourdit in Mind

Discourse and semblance are important terms to understand in order to make sense of L’Étourdit. My wager is that all that is re-presented by Lacan in this écrit is present in a nascent state in earlier works such as On a Discourse that Might Not be a Semblance – a seminar well worth re-visiting to help us come to terms with the shocking implications of non-existence, indicated in 1971 by Lacan in many new ways, such as in the notion that the semblance is but a connotation.…