ABSTRACT
A jurisprudential discussion of the Lacanian discourses properly ends with the hysteric’s discourse in which the barred subject speaks. I maintain that the practice of law-the representation of clients-speaks this discourse. Practice is, therefore, feminine. An attorney is, structurally, a woman. On a more abstract level, I argue that the hysteric’s discourse allows us to create right understood as the righting of the wrong-the temporary resolution of the trauma that positive law causes through the expulsion of “morality” (ethical law).
