Theory reveals how courtly love challenges language's repression on jouissance, suggesting insights for social practice.
Jacques Lacan argued that courtly love worked against the repressive effect of language on jouissance , thereby circumventing a structural non-rapport between the sexes and proving that an ethics of desire can govern social practice if the admission of lack governs the debates and rituals in play.
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