The Formulae of Sexuation

With these formulae, Lacan is proposing that the inexistence of the primal father Bx .Ox is a logical necessity that grounds the possibility that all men are subject to the phallic function Vx. Φx. While from the impossibility of there existing someone who is not subject to the phallic function Ǝx. Φx, there is the contingency that not-all of the woman is subject to the phallic function Vx. Φx. These references to the primal father, men, woman give 'personality' to the logical dimension of castration and its relation to sexual enjoyment.…