Kant with Sade: April 1963: Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on April 1, 1963
The essay ‘Kant with Sade’ was to have served as a preface to ‘Philosophy in the Bedroom’. It was published in the journal ‘Critique’ (CXCI, April 1963) as a review of the edition of Sade’s works for which it was intended: the 15-volume set brought out in 1963 by Éditions du Cercle du livre précieux.
1) ‘Kant with Sade’ by Jacques Lacan.
Note : There are two published editions in French : a) in Écrits, Éditions du Seuil, 1966, p765-790 b) the 1971 pocket edition version of the Écrits. Only William J. Richardson translates the fuller, original copy.
Published in English
Note : See Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, Translations by James B. Swenson Jr (1989), William J. Richardson (2009) & Bruce Fink (2005) available here
a) translated by J. B. Swenson in ‘October’ MIT Press, Mass. 1989.
‘Kant with Sade’ translated James B. Swenson Jr, October, vol 51, p55-75, 1989. Available here. Translated from the 1971 pocket edition version of the Écrits.
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See Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, Translations by James B. Swenson, Jr, William J. Richardson & Bruce Fink available here
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Notes to James B. Svenson’s translation
Annotations to “Kant with Sade” Author(s): James B. Swenson, Jr. Source: October, Vol. 51 (Winter, 1989), pp. 76-104 Published by: The MIT Press
Available at Richard G. Klein’s website www.Freud2Lacan.com : here
b) translated by William J. Richardson, published The Letter, Issue 42 (2009), pp.21-56. Translated from the original 1966 publication of the Écrits. See Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, Translations by James B. Swenson, Jr, William J. Richardson & Bruce Fink available here
c) translated by Bruce Fink with Héloïse Fink & Russell Grigg in: ‘Jacques Lacan: Écrits – The first complete edition in English': W.W. Norton & Co: 2005: p645 onwards : See here
For Translator’s Notes to Fink’s translation of Kant avec Sade, see Richard G. Klein’s website, www.Freud2Lacan.com, available here
2) Published in French, ‘Kant avec Sade’, in ‘Écrits': Jacques Lacan: Paris Éditions du Seuil: 1966: from p765-790. See Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here. There is also a 1971 pocket edition of the Écrits.
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Further texts:
Reference:
Philosophy in the (Boudoir) Bedroom: 1795: Marquis de Sade or here
Commentaries:
The ‘TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment by Jean-Louis Gault on 1st October 2003 or here
Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle by Pierre Naveau on 8th January 2004 or here
The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts by Julia Evans on 16th January 2012 or here
Other related texts:
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud : here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
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Comments on ‘A woman is authorised by herself’: An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher? by Julia Evans on 16th April 2013 or here
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by Julia Evans on 14th October 2012 or here
English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations by Julia Evans on 30th June 2012 or here
What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence by Julia Evans on 14th August 2011 or here
… the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”. by Julia Evans on 13th August 2011 or here
The two laws, limits and position: a new post by Julia Evans on 10th July 2011 or here
Melancholia, the Pain of Existence and Moral Cowardice : October1988 : Éric Laurent or here
