Sur « La logique du fantasme »
On “The Logic of Fantasy”

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the recently published seminar entitled La logique du fantasme, in particular on the section regarding the value of jouissance. It also briefly introduces the last lesson of the seminar, named by Jacques-Alain Miller L’axiome du fantasme. As always, the publication of a new seminar brings with it a clash of ideas and a reversal of understandings. This seminar is no less charming than the other seminars, and is also more complex than the previous seminars. This complexity can be attributed broadly to two reasons: on the one hand, its development is based on the previous seminars, so its reading requires more background knowledge; on the other hand, as the title La logique du fantasme suggests, the question of logic becomes the center of Lacan’s discussion. People who follow the seminars may know that at least since Seminar 9 or even since Seminar 6, Lacan was always concerned with problems of logic until the emergence of the formula of sexuation in Seminar 20. We can therefore consider that Lacan, when he taught in Seminar 14, was walking on the great path of logic.Keywords: jouissance; logic; phantasy; truth.

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