Edinburgh Napier University

  This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics that Lacan has performed itself precludes the idea of a conclusion. This non-conclusive conclusion then allows us to grasp the open ethics Lacan is advocating, one which avoids both the Charybdis of a prescriptive morality and the Scylla of an anything goes approach and instead places desire, as a compass, at the heart of ethics.