ABSTRACT

All of Jacques Lacan's rethinking of the regulations of jouissance, sex, the Father, clinical structures, love, and the correlative ends of analysis, has political implications and consequences. The implication of jouissance is clear in the conversion symptoms of hysteria and in the perversions, which both involve scenarios with the body. Subjects who do not have a body, as Lacan says of Joyce, for example, but also of a young woman in a clinical presentation, these subjects obviously have an organism and an image, but they cannot make use of them, or in any case, not the standard use. Think of the Marxist slogan "Psychoanalysis is bourgeois science", indicating that treatment was intended to make people stay in line, that therapy is a collaboration with the dominant discourse. With Lacan, the analysis of the malaise in sexuality has revealed that the non-relation of the sexed jouissances is at the root of the difficulties in the social bond.