H o w , t h e n , are we to live? What are the implications of psychoan­ alytic discovery for the conduct of life itself? What are the implica­ tions of this unproven and unprovable discovery of life as a repetitious composition of the contradictoriness of desire and semiosis, of “being” in relation to the law and order of signification, and of a contradictorious otherwise that breaks the reiterative claims of all apparent repe­ titions? Here and in the next chapter we shall discuss psychoanalysis as method, as praxis, and in terms of the “ethicality” of its curative momentum. The idea of a postmodern mandate provides an oppor­ tune entrance to this discussion.