Lectures on Lacan Podcast La Troisième, Episode 4
Feb 2, 2026
A deep dive into Lacan’s third Rome discourse and the diagrams that map jouissance and sexual difference. Short segments explore the image of the body, masculine and feminine enjoyment, and the little a as surplus enjoyment. Discussion traces parasexuation, the wall of sexuation, and how symptoms arise from the real. Ends by linking modern gadgets to contemporary symptoms and psychoanalysis’s paradoxical aim.
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Two Kinds Of Jouissance
- Lacan's J-A and J-Φ map two distinct kinds of jouissance: corporal (feminine) and phallic (masculine).
- The objet petit a sits between them as the masculine subject's surplus enjoyment of the other's bodily fragmentation.
Parasexuation And The Non‑Rapport
- Parasexuation means subjects are sexuated alongside and against one another, never forming a unifying sexual rapport.
- The non-rapport sits behind a little a that prevents a true sexual relationship and brings us to the threshold of the Real.
Sexuality As Hopeless
- Lacan calls sexuality hopeless because the speaking being can never reach the 'real real' behind sexuation.
- The real intervenes in the symbolic and imaginary to form a 'wall of sexuation' that limits access to the true Real.
