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Cassin, Barbara
Jacques the Sophist, 10/2019Book Chapter
If the two worlds, Lacanian and sophistic, are comparable, it is precisely because both the sophists and Lacan have the same other: the “normal” philosophical regime of discourse, defined by the equivalence between “saying” and “meaning something,” namely, “something that has one and the same meaning for oneself and for others.” Aristotle elaborates this series as a means of defending against sophistry; this normative decision is clear for Lacan.¹ It is thus at least plausible that an anti-Aristotelian regime and a post-Aristotelian regime such as Lacanian psychoanalysis could communicate through their non-Aristotelianism, even if the different kinds of “non-” (a
