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At once plunging into formulas of sexuation, hysteria running
throughout, lacanian ink 10 jumps into the double digits ...
Say we look in the figures of the letters and the numbers. Does 10 take
in the notion of zero and one? What is zero, what is one?
When the count begins with (ø) - an empty set - and yet
wants to count the set of the empty set - ( ) - as one; the act of counting
two will take in the set composed of both the empty set and the set of the empty
set - of 0 and 1 ...
It makes you dizzy, I know, but let me get there ... . The set of the
empty set, to wit a signifier, is a One ... "Has this One a chance of
singularity in the universe?" (1)
The signifier of signifiers is of course the phallus. But its
singularity does not come from the universe, rather it starts out from turgid
jouissance. We can say that this means that a piece of flesh is bestowed
from then on, yet the body being mortified at this particular place, the phallus
won¹t carry out an organic function
The mother¹s lack of penis is a kind of apocalyptic moment.
The boy is not the same, the girl is the same but what is the patch -
hair? They can¹t see through the patch ...
Set on dilemma more than on anatomic envisioning, if the body is
to tell of the nature of the phallus - its famous lack not satisfiable upon
demand, nor from desire - what it may reveal signifies in some other order.
A lacking point in the subject, the phallus, what it inscribes is the lack in
being: this other body, in the symbolic, is poised within a sepulcher, is a
sepulcher.
Within the sepulcher drive aims at the jouissance of a supreme
object. "Eat me son...you eat me mother."
*Excerpt
(1) Jacques Lacan, "les-non-dupes-errent," unpublished seminar,
1973/ 4.
IMAGE: JEREMY SIGLER - Untitled, acrylic on wall, 21" x 23", 1995
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