ABSTRACT
The provocative impression of Jacques Lacan’s affirmation that ‘there is no sexual rapport’ continues to appear to many as a sort of brutal truth about sex, gaining authenticity by coming from a now-famous psychoanalyst. During the seminar on The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Lacan launched (for quite different reasons) into a commentary on the Freudian Ding as he found it in the Project (as opposed to Sache), which allowed him to glimpse what might be involved in a non-narcissistic object. The inexistence of the sexual rapport stems, first of all, from the fact of deconstructing essences, of recognising that it is not possible to produce symbols at the same level on the side of man and on the side of woman. The only possible way of comprehending this sort of passionate and tautological affirmation of Lacan in this respect is once again mathematical and logical: there is a decisive difference between a set of individuals and the domain that they constitute.
