Questions about the Familiar in the Ithaca Episode of Ulysses

Copulation matters to the psychoanalyst! The copulation we have in mind - to use Lacan's provocative take on this very particular word that ordinarily suggests 'only the one thing' - sex, right? - is the copulation between language and the literal flesh of our bodies. Everything to do with the drives, the sexual relationship, the unconscious, is decided out of this copulation. In simple words it manifests itself differently for the psychotic subject and the neurotic subject and then there is Joyce... and believe you me, Joyce also matters to the psychoanalyst.…