Lacan Notes What is it that allows someone to disregard the normal, rational calculations of pleasure and pain, and

thus become capable of a truly ethical act? Is it not precisely the fact that the pleasure principle does not hold universal sway? In other words, Lacans point is that it is precisely the existence of the death drive, the beyond of the pleasure principle, which makes possible the ethical zone. pp.7-8 [Evans, Dylan, 1998, From Kantian Ethics to Mystical Experience: An Exploration of Jouissance, in Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis ed. Dany Nobus, London: Rebus Press, pp.1-28