ABSTRACT
To shed light on Joyce's singularity, Lacan went to the trouble of once more clarifying two other uses of the body, those erotic uses that constitute the symptoms known as woman and as hysteric on the plane of the sexual couple. For Joyce, however, lalangue is laid bare due to his rejection of discourse, except, as we shall see, that it is not his lalangue, the one constitutive of his unconscious and of his fundamental symptom. It is not an exaggeration to say that each of us has his or her lalangue, another name for the unconscious: the one that marks his or her body and inscribes there both the drives and the letter of the fundamental symptom. The thesis of a symptom that functions as supplementation to the foreclosure of the sexual relation – this is a thesis that Lacan established in disagreement with himself.
