Love & Passion Quote by Jacques Lacan

Lacan is doing what he does best: taking a scalpel to the assumption that difference is merely social, psychological, or even linguistic, and insisting it has a kind of formal "address" in the structure of subjectivity itself. "A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus" is a provocation aimed at the cozy fantasy that everyone occupies the same psychic space and simply disagrees. Geometry, for Lacan, is not math class; it is a metaphor for how a system makes places. If a system has places, it can also have an "elsewhere" that is not just another point on the map. That elsewhere is the Other.

The sexed twist matters. When he says "one sex as Other, as absolute Other", he's not offering a compliment to feminine mystery so much as diagnosing a structural asymmetry: in a phallocentric symbolic order, "woman" is positioned as what cannot be fully represented by the dominant coordinates. The subtext is less about biology than about legibility. Who gets counted as the measure? Who becomes the remainder?

His turn to "the most recent development in topology" is classic Lacan: an attempt to give this claim an austere, almost scientific rigor without reducing it to empirical psychology. Topology lets him talk about continuity, holes, boundaries, and surfaces that fold back on themselves - figures for desire and lack - without pretending the psyche is a machine with parts. The intent is to argue that alterity isn't a moral stance or an identity category; it's baked into the architecture. Topology becomes his way of saying: the Other isn't across the room. It's the gap that makes the room possible.