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On 29/07/2011 00:54, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> * Lacan uses the model of Achilles and Briseida (a slave-girl, or the
> tortoise...) representing infinite regress to explain how, according to his
> theory, men and women can never ever really meet in a (symbolic, ie, a
> verbalizable) sexual embrace...
> ----
> Perhaps the enslaved-QUEEN,¹ rather than a slave-girl,¹ better describes
> Briseis (later spelling, Briseida), she who caused so much trouble twixt
> Achilles and Agamemnon in the Illiad. Indeed, one might call her central to
> Homer¹s yarn!
>
> It¹s depressing that Lacan can shamelessly deploy his mathematical ignorance
> with such pseudo-paradoxical nonsense. The Hare does catch the Tortoise; and,
> barring a Lacanian Virgin-Birth, his parents did manage a real, verbalizable
> [sic] sexual embrace!
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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