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Lacan's Later Teaching
J
ACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

The Scene of Two
A
LAIN BADIOU

The Proofs of
Interpretation
G
RACIELA BRODSKY

Polaroid Diary
M
ANU BURGHART

The State of
Emergency
Called Love
S
LAVOJ ZIZEK

Ethics and
the Theatre
F
RANÇOIS REGNAULT

Television
B
ENOÎT JACQUOT

Via S. Zaccaria 4
R
APHAEL RUBINSTEIN

Gary Hill
C
ATHY LEBOWITZ
interviews
JOSEFINA AYERZA

George Condo
C
ATHY LEBOWITZ
interviews
JOSEFINA AYERZA

 


























        

The Scene of Two


Alain Badiou

translated by Barbara P. Fulks

The following can be conceived as a commentary on Lacan's statement that love comes to supplement the lack of sexual rapport.

Formally, one must determine what a function of supplement is, even up to the point at which a rapport cannot be written. Ontologically, one accepts that if sexual rapport cannot be written, if it is non-existent as an effect of structure, then love itself as supplement can only arrive by chance. The event that must be registered as love is what, in my language, establishes that the sexual is of the order of being. It is what Lacan asserted when he professed that love is an approach, or a "coming aboard": "Being is love which comes aboard in the encounter."

 

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* From de l'amour, Flammarion, 2000



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