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This section delves into the difference between jouissance linked to the signifier ‘man’ and the jouissance linked to the signifier ‘woman’. It explores the implications of what Freud called ‘libido’ and what Lacan called ‘the phallus’ upon the spatiality of the unconscious, showing that there is no complementarity between jouissances. This section also starts to develop the hypothesis that what psychoanalysis calls ‘sex’ is linked to a lack in jouissance. Such a lack takes the form of the ‘other sex’ that compels the subject to pass through logical modalities of how the Other is existing. It also starts to distinguish the differences between what psychoanalysis calls sexuation and everyday sexuality.