Jacques Lacan and the feminine….where is it?





Lacan is already in pursuit of this idea in Seminar XI… and this is 1964.
He brings up the matter by saying that something that breaks apart is in turn splitting the being. The actual being will then accommodate itself to the certain bipartition, even in the natural world.
Call it mimicry, …. So the split comes about between “its being and its semblance, between itself and that paper tiger it shows to the other. In the case of display, …..in the case of = swelling by which the animal enters the play of combat in the form of intimidation, the being gives of himself, or receives from the other, something that is like a mask, a double, an envelope, a thrown-off skin, thrown off in order to cover the frame of a shield.”
The being that comes into play: it is this separated form of herself that takes over against the effects of life and death. It is with the help of this doubling of the other, or of oneself, that the renovation of beings proceeds in reproduction.