Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

this term in the feminine, since that has no sense, that has no sense (sens),that has no valid sense.Madame Kress-Rosen had the goodness to say last evening almost what Iwanted to say to someone, whom there is no longer any question of myencountering, since it is a person that I asked to telephone me and who didnot do so – it is someone who belongs to German radio, I don’t know toowell, in truth I do not even know her name, but she asked me, apparently onthe advice of Roman Jakobson, to answer something about what concernshim.My first feeling was to say that what I call linguisterie – Madame Kress-Rosen has given its destiny to this appellation – that what I calledlinguisterie requires psychoanalysis to be supported. I would add that thereis no other linguistics than the one that I call linguisterie, which does notmean that psychoanalysis is the whole of linguistics, events prove this,namely, that people have been doing linguistics for a very long time sincethe Cratylus, since Donatus, since Priscianus, that people have always doneit, and this moreover does not settle anything since I tended to say the lasttime – I noticed it in connection with this S 1 and this S 2 which are separatedin the correct notation of what I called the psychoanalysis discourse. I thinkthat after all you got some information from the Belgians, and that the factthat I spoke about psychoanalysis as being able to be a fraud, has reachedyour ears, I would even say that I insist on it in speaking about this S 1 whichappears to promise an S 2 .It must all the same be remembered at that moment what I said concerningthe subject, namely, the relationship of this S 1 with this S 2 . I said, at onetime, that a signifier was what represented the subject for another signifier.So then what can be deduced from that? I will all the same give you anindication, even if only to throw some light on my route because it is notself-evident. Psychoanalysis is perhaps a fraud, but it is not just any onewhatsoever. It is a fraud that is quite correct with respect to what a signifieris. And the signifier, it should all the same be clearly noted is something102