What Do We Call ‘Body Event’?[1]

By | May 15th, 2021|LRO 296|

This expression “body event”, as defining the symptom, can be found in the text Lacan submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of the 5thInternational Joyce Symposium in 1975, under the title “Joyce the Symptom”.[2]Here is the passage in question: “Let us leave the symptom to what it is: an event of the body, bound up with [...]