From the phallic jouissance to the jouissance of the Other. Beyond phallic signification, structuring element for both the male subject and the female subject, Lacan points to another type of jouissance, a supplementary jouissance, the jouissance of the Other, the feminine jouissance, beyond the phallus. From the S1, signifier for the phallic jouissance, which inscribes the logic of the phallic signification, in so much as it is demonstrated through the formulation of the master's discourse, Lacan goes to S (A) as a means of writing the non-existence of the Other sex and of the consequent impossibility of the sexual relation, as can be proved through the writing of the algebraic formulae of the analyst's discourse.
Phallic signification; phallic jouissance; master's discourse; analyst's discourse; jouissance of the Other
