The subject, legendary: pleasure, love, female sexuality. In this seminar, Lacan explores the impossibility of the relationship between the two genders, the autistic attachment of each to pleasure, the woman as "not whole," erotic discourse as a substitute for contact, the pleasure dimension of unconscious knowledge.

The style, captivating: never before has a psychoanalytic text utilized the ambiguity of language, the dynamics of aphorism, the baroque polyphony of references to such a degree.

The theoretical moment, interstitial: the French psychoanalyst settles his accounts with mathematics and structural linguistics, intensifying the detection of topology and the real. Through the confrontation of Freud with Aristotle and Marx, the problematic of late, so relevant in our days, emerges from Lacanian teaching.

The Greek edition, bilingual and annotated: a valuable tool for the student of Lacan, providing the opportunity for direct comparison with the original French.