Abstract

Desire and jouissance between death and mourning in Jacques Lacan The aim of the essay is to show how the dimensions of death and mourning are fundamental to understanding the concepts of desire and jouissance in Lacanian theory. In the first paragraph, the focus is on Antigone's desire, which shows a tendency towards an impossible jouissance, attainable only through transgression. The intermediate paragraph deals with the dimension of loss in the pisco-analytic experience through the analysis of an essential moment in the Oedipal dynamics: the mourning of the phallus. The concluding section discusses the death of God through the myth of the origin of the Law.