ABSTRACT
The author situates Lacan’s work against the background of 20th-century (but not just philosophic) thought. And while he inserts Lacan into the so-called linguistic turn (which characterized both Anglo-American and the Continental thinking), he also notes the end of this linguistic turn; and it is in this key that he interprets the final Lacan, and above all the contributions made by his disciples, who tend to minimize the function of language and emphasize instead enjoyment and the Real.
