Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

But as compared to this first torus, as compared to the same, what you haveis something that I draw like that, with respect to the same, the torus-rod – ifwe remember this thing, the torus-rod comes here, namely, that in order tosupport things, the hole which is to be made in the torus, the one that Idesignated here, can be made in any locus whatsoever of the torus, up to andincluding cutting the torus here, because then it is quite manifest that thiscut torus can be turned inside out in the same way and that it will be byjoining two cuts that we will obtain this aspect. In other words by cuttingthe torus here, you get what I called the presentation as a rod in the sameway, namely, that something that will manifest itself in the torus by two cutswill allow a folding over exactly in the way as by joining the two cuts – andnot by forming the single cut, the one that I made here – it is in joining twocuts that we obtain this rod which I am calling by this term, even though it isa torus.Here you have what today, and I agree it is not easy to digest, but what Iwould like the next time, namely, on the 2 nd Tuesday of December what Iwould like to hear the next time from one of you, is the way in which thesetwo modes of folding of the torus being joined to a third which for its part isthe following:10