Difficulties With Imaginary

Abstract

In the article Lacan’s Seminar XX, Encore, is considered from the viewpoint of two conceptions of imaginary, a simple one which stemms from the concept of discourse, and a twofold one which is developed in the triangular scheme of the Seminar. It is argued that, unfortunately, in the Seminar the distinction between the two conceptions is not presented explicitely, which explains the dangerous pertinacy of the dualism between the ex-timate phallic enjoyment and the jouissance of the Other. In the article Lacan’s two formulas of sexuation are interpreted in a way which neither excludes nor affirms the possibility of sexual relation.