Some Clinical Consequences of the Logical Difference between the Sexes

We have tried to follow as closely as possible the movements of the writing by which Lacan arrived at his formulae, in the hope of dissipating while doing so some stubborn obscurities, due in large measure to the interpretations that he was the first to make of them - among others, the one that sees in the exception, in, the logical writing of the totemic father, of him who is supposed by definition to escape the phallic law validfor all, except for him.…