ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics that Lacan has performed itself precludes the idea of a conclusion. This non-conclusive conclusion then allows us to grasp the open ethics Lacan is advocating, one which avoids both the Charybdis of a prescriptive morality and the Scylla of an anything-goes approach and instead places desire, as a compass, at the heart of ethics.
