Description
Scilicet, 2026
The XVth CONGRESS of the World Association of Psychoanalysis
‘Themes’: Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, references, Scilicet
‘Author’: Association mondiale de psychanalyse et New Lacanian School
Presentation
“Ever since Lacan stated that there is no sexual relation, we have been racking our brains to figure out what he means by sexual relation. To put it simply, Lacan calls sexual relation what constitutes Freud’s reference in his theory of libido and drives, the reference against which he measures the substitutions of jouissance.”
Jacques-Alain Miller, “There Is, There Is Not”
Table of Contents
Preface
There Is No Sexual Relation
Christiane Alberti
Lacanian Orientation
There Is, There Is Not
Jacques-Alain Miller
Presentation
A Knowledge Always Under Construction
Ricardo Seldes
Aphorisms
I.
“The condition of forbiddenness in the erotic life of women is, I think, comparable to the need on the part of men to debase their sexual object,” Sigmund Freud
Presentation, Marcus André Vieira, Plus-One (EBP)
Debasement and Its Beyond, Damien Guyonnet (ECF)
From Fiction to Real, and Back Again? Dossia Avdelidi (NLS)
The Sexes and the Roar of the Unconscious, Eduardo Suárez (EOL)
To Forbid or to Love the Traces of an Exile? Mariela Rodríguez Méndez (NEL)
II
“Second marriages so often turn out better than first [for the woman],” Sigmund Freud
Presentation, Gustavo Stiglitz, Plus-One (EOL)
To Form a Couple With the Double Loop, Erick González (ELP)
From Steady to Fluid Marriages, Marie-Claude Sureau (ECF)
Héteros, Paola Cornu (NEL)
The Freudian Conjecture of the Second Marriage, Paula Kalfus (EOL)
III.
“One might almost say that women are altogether taboo,” Sigmund Freud
Presentation, Maria Bolgiani, Plus-One (SLP)
The Taboo of Subjective Division, Camila Candioti (EOL)
Virginity, Frigidity, Otherness, Giuliana Capannelli (SLP)
The Uncountable, Laura Sokolowsky (ECF)
Taboo of Alterity, Nassia Linardou (NLS)
IV
“A man serves here as a relay so that a woman becomes this Other to herself, as she is to him,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Manuel Fernandéz Blanco, Plus-One (ELP)
The Incidence of the Phallus on the Subjectivity of Women, Fabiana Lifchitz (ELP)
Other to Herself: A Consent, Lorena Greñas (NEL)
Declensions of Feminine Jouissance, Paula Husni (EOL)
No Throwing in the Towel and No Chasing One’s Tail, Valeria Sommer-Dupont (ECF)
V
“Female sexuality appears, instead, as the effort of a jouissance enveloped in its own contiguity,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Maria Josefina Sota Fuentes, Plus-One (EBP)
Infinite Immersion, Isabelle Orrado (ECF)
A Jouissance Interwoven With Love, Eugenia Insua (ELP)
Contiguity, Matias Meichtri Quintans (EOL)
Words of Love, Riccardo Andolcetti (SLP)
VI
“The point of myth where the sexual is made passion of the signifier is summed up by the phallus,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Laura Storti, Plus-One (SLP)
“An Irreducible Third”, Alice Delarue (ECF)
The Phallus: A Veiling Shadow, Ennia Favret (EOL)
The Phallus: Signifier and Reverse…, Marita Salgado (EOL)
The Double Function of the Myth, Ruzanna Hakobyan (NLS)
VII.
“The there is no sexual relation does not imply that there is no relation to sex,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Pamela King, Plus-One (NLS)
Ravage of the Sexual Non-Relation and the Substance Expected from the Relation to Sex, Leticia Varga (EOL)
The Love of 2, Rik Loose (NLS)
The Non-Existence of the Sexual Relation and the Relation to Sex, Susane Vasconcelos Zanotti (EBP)
VIII.
“That usual misfiring, of which the successful sexual act consists,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Éric Zuliani, Plus-One (ECF)
Making Love, Between Act and Poetry, Andrea Berger (EOL)
The Successful Fiasco in Rubem Fonseca’s “Honeymoon”, Antonio Teixeira (EBP)
The Partner-Symptom, Consequence of the Sexual Non-Relation, Christel Van den Eeden (NLS)
Failure or Damnation, Pascale Fari (ECF)
IX
“Only love allows jouissance to condescend to desire,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Angèle Terrier, Plus-One (ECF)
Love and Desire in the Masculine, Alejandra Breglia (EOL)
The Illusion of Love, Christine Maugin (ECF)
Love and Anxiety: Between Jouissance and Desire, Eva Bocchiola (SLP)
Feminine Love and Jouissance, Natalie Wülfing (NLS)
X
“The absence of sexual relation clearly doesn’t prevent liaisons, far from it, but rather provides them with their conditions,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Carolina Koretzky, Plus-One (ECF)
Don’t Let Go of the Rope, Daniela Teggi (EOL)
The Possible Link Between Impossible and Necessary, Giada Ceridono (SLP)
The Condition of Transference in the Absence of the Sexual Relation, Mirmila Musse (EBP)
Up to the “Inter-Sinthomatic Relation”, Rose-Paule Vinciguerra (ECF)
XI.
“The phallus is the conscientious objection made by one of the two sexed beings to the service to be rendered to the other,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Simone Souto, Plus-One (EBP)
Like Leaves in the Wind, Alessandra Fontana (SLP)
To Be Afflicted by a Woman in the Whole Body, Celeste Stecco (ELP)
Threshold, Manuel Zlotnik (EOL)
Gallantry, Sonia Chiriaco (ECF)
XII.
“Everything that is written stems from the fact that it will forever be impossible to write, as such, the sexual relation,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Camilo Ramírez, Plus-One (ECF)
Writing Non-Existence, Alejandra Glaze (EOL)
Writing Between What It Is and Its Function, Raffaele Calabria (SLP)
What is Written as Defence and the Non-Existence of Sexual Relation, Valéria Ferranti (EBP)
Contingency of the Encounter, Victoria Paz (ECF)
XIII.
“What makes up for the sexual relation is, quite precisely, love,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Maria Cristina Giraldo, Plus-One (NEL)
A Sense of Love, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff (NLS)
XIV.
“It is precisely because the said jouissance speaks that the sexual relation is not,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Ligia Gorini, Plus-One (ECF)
Another Satisfaction, Gregorio Di Ciaccia (SLP)
The “Knot in the Utterable” and the Sexual Non-Relation, Laura Rubião (EBP)
The Shift from Impotence to the Impossible… and the Remainder, Laura Vigué (ECF)
The Pieces Don’t Fit Together, Ludmila Malischevski (EOL)
XV
“There’s no such thing as a sexual relation because one’s jouissance of the Other taken as a body is always inadequate,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Luis Tudanca, Plus-One (EOL)
Exile from the Sexual Relation and Creative Potency, Ana Viganó (NEL)
The Sinthome and the Non-Existence of the Sexual Relation, Cristiano Alves Pimenta (EBP)
Enigmatic Jouissance, Guy Briole (ECF)
There Is Not, Although… Ah, Ahh, Ahhh! Marisa Moretto (EOL)
XVI.
“The only responsibility that exists is sexual responsibility,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Alejandro Reinoso, Plus-One (NEL)
Taking Responsibility for its Purring, Concha Lechón (ELP)
Opacities, Dolores Amden (EOL)
“A Response That Falls Wide of the Mark”, Philip Dravers (NLS)
Responsibility and Ability, Philippe Lacadée (ECF)
XVII.
“I was led to this principle by sexual relation, that is, by hysteria,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Carmen Carceller, Plus-One (ELP)
Hysteria, as a Principle, Fabiana Chirino (NEL)
“I Am No Longer There for Anyone”, Gloria Aksman (EOL)
Hysteria and the Sexual Relation, Maria Inês Lamy (EBP)
“I Was Led by Sexual Relation, That Is, by Hysteria”, Sylvie Berkane Goumet (ECF)
XVIII.
“A woman is a sinthome for any man,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Claudia Iddan, Plus-One (NLS)
Falling Together, Fabio Galimberti (SLP)
Symptom; Sinthome, Julia Solano (EBP)
The Courage of the Sinthome?, Laure Naveau (ECF)
The Mystery of the Speaking Body: Is It Sexual?, Nieves Soria (EOL)
XIX.
“For a woman, man is anything you please, […]. A ravage, even,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Daniel Millas, Plus-One (EOL)
Ravage and Body Event, Andréa Reis Santos (EBP)
Modalities of Ravage, Andrés Borderías (ELP)
A Partner That Ravishes … or Ravages, Bruno Alivon (ECF)
Of a Love Within Its Own Contiguity, Ramón Ochoa (NEL)
XX
“There is a sinthome he and a sinthome she. […] The sexual relation is an inter-sinthomatic relation,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Jorge Assef, Plus-One (EOL)
The Colours of the Sinthome, Alexandre Stevens (ECF)
There Is and There Isn’t, Markus Zöchmeister-Bénard (NLS)
What There Is, Is Difference, Paloma Larena (ELP)
Making Do With the Sexual Non-Relation, Rocío Cid (ELP)
XXI.
“The notion of the empty set is what suits the sexual relation,” Jacques Lacan
Presentation, Shula Eldar, Plus-One (ELP)
The Letter that Suits the Set of the Sexual Relation, Jessica Jara (NEL)
What Suits What Does Not Exist, Flávia Cêra (EBP)
The Empty Set is the Place of the Inexistent, Luis Solano (ECF)
The Squared Circle and the Sexual Relation, Mónica Lax (EOL)
XXII.
“Pornography […] there is no better indicator of the absence of sexual relation in the real,” Jacques-Alain Miller
Presentation, Oscar Zack, Plus-One (EOL)
Pornography … And What About the Fantasy? Gladys Martínez (NEL)
From Contingency to the Impossible, Jean-Louis Gault (ECF)
Technopornography and the Unrevealable of the Sexual, Laura Canedo (ELP)
It Leaves a Mark, Hamutal Shapira (NLS)
