ABSTRACT

By way of introduction to the subject of love and the woman that does not exist in Seminar XX Encore, Jacques Lacan resumes speaking about the signifier and its relation to the letter. Marguerite Duras, who had a lot to say about love, found Barthes' book on love unreadable. According to Duras, men are unable to love because love is heterosexual and heterosexuality implies a desire and a lack. Duras' logic of love resonates with Lacan's statement that the heterosexual is the one who loves women. As for a woman, love is not only a passion. It is also a eulogy. What Lacan was attempting to deal with in his seminar Encore is not only the eulogy of love but the enigma of heterosexuality. What in love is not subject to meaning belongs therefore to a different order, even disorder if this is the way in which we could refer to what Lacan called "not-all".