Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

I remind you that the place of semblance where I put the object...that theplace of semblance is not where I articulated that of the Truth.How can a subject, since that is how I designated the S with the bar, $, howcan a subject, a subject with all its weakness, its debility, hold the place ofthe Truth and even ensure that this has results? He places himself in it inthis way, namely, a Knowledge. [To be corrected, insert arrows andbars]o > S 2 (hesitation) o > S 1$ S i $ S 2Is it not like that that I wrote it at the time?- J-A Miller: $ at the place of S 1 , S 1 at the place of S 2 and S 2 at the placeof $o > $S 2 S 1- Lacan: - You see that it is easy to get confused with this!Yes. Undoubtedly it is better like that. It is undoubtedly better like that, butit is still more troubling like that, I mean that the gap between S 1 and S 2 ismore striking because there is something interrupted and that in short S 1 , isonly the beginning of knowledge; but a knowledge which is content toalways commence, as they say, ends up at nothing. This indeed is why,when I went to Brussels, I did not speak about psychoanalysis in the best ofterms. There are some that I recognise who were there.Good. To commence to know in order not to arrive, is something whichgoes when all is said and done, rather well with what I call my lack of hope,but finally that implies a name, a term it remains for me to allow you toguess – the Belgian people who heard me speak in Brussels being free toshare it with you or not.100