* Lacan uses the model of Achilles and Briseida (a slave-girl, or the tortoise...) representing infinite regress to explain how, according to his theory, men and women can never ever really meet in a (symbolic, ie, a verbalizable) sexual embrace...
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 Perhaps ‘the enslaved-QUEEN,’ rather than ‘a slave-girl,’ better describes Briseis (later spelling, Briseida), she who caused so much trouble ‘twixt Achilles and Agamemnon in the Illiad. Indeed, one might call her central to Homer’s yarn!

It’s depressing that Lacan can shamelessly deploy his mathematical ignorance with such pseudo-paradoxical nonsense. The Hare does catch the Tortoise; and, barring a Lacanian Virgin-Birth, his parents did manage a real, verbalizable [sic] sexual embrace!

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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