Plato's Good For Lacan

This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number. In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis[1] Lacan identifies what has been a theme, perhaps the major one, of that year: they have been exploring what he terms the subjective positions of being.. He sets up this triadic schema to help orientate his listeners: What we have here is a very simple version of a schema that Lacan goes on to develop over the course of seven or eight weeks.…