Seminars XVII and XVIII with XXIII: On a University Discourse that might not be Joycean

This essay attempts to elucidate a new way in which to envisage Joycean discourse, which has so often been yoked to that of the university discourse outlined by Lacan in a fourfold schema in Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis. To reach this goal it puts the aforementioned Seminar into relief against Seminars XVIII, On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance and XXIII, Le sinthome, as well as against work of a third interlocutor, Jacques Derrida.…