The lack of forgetting is the same thing as the lack of being, for being is none other than forgetting. The love for truth is the love for this weakness that we have unveiled, it's the love of this that the truth hides, which is called castration. Castration, coming at the place where the signifier slips away, bringing up desire, detaching an objet a , entails the phallus. Desire and jouissance are knotted and thwarted because of the phallus. Lacan stresses the identification between repetition and jouissance .
Repetition needs jouissance .
Only through repetition does the subject appear. Jouissance differs from pleasure in as much as jouissance includes both pleasure and pain. He named it jouissance . The return to the inanimate state entailing precisely what there is of jouissance , constitutes the ideal point in structural analysis and is invariable in every discourse. Based on a return of jouissance in repetition itself, something fails.