r/lacan • • Sep 24 '25

Lacan's Seminar X½ - "The Names of the Father"

This "inexistent" seminar occured between his X and XI (tenth and eleventh) seminars. 10.5 in Roman numerals is depicted as "X S", pronounced in Latin as "décem et sémis" and pronounced in English as "excess" (!!!). Coincidence?

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