Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

very special; it has what people call sense- effects, and it would be enoughfor me to connote S 2 , as not being the second in time, but as having a doubledirection (sens) for the S 1 to take its place, and its place correctly. It shouldall the same be said that the weight of this duplicity of sense is common toevery signifier.I think that Madame Kress-Rosen will not contradict me, if she wants tooppose it in any way whatsoever, she is quite free to make a sign to me,since, I repeat, I am delighted that she is there. Psychoanalysis, I would say,is no more of a fraud than poetry itself, and poetry is founded precisely onthis ambiguity of which I speak and which I qualify as double sense. Poetryappears to me all the same to depend on the relation of the signifier to thesignified. One could say in a certain way that poetry is imaginarilysymbolic, I mean that, since Madame Kress-Rosen yesterday evokedSaussure and his distinction between the tongue and speech, not moreoverwithout noting that as regards this distinction, Saussure had wavered; itremains all the same that his starting point, namely, that the tongue is thefruit of a maturation, of the ripening of something that is crystallised inusage, it remains that poetry depends on a violence done to this usage andthat, - we have proofs of this – , if I evoked, the last time, Dante and lovepoetry, it is indeed to mark this violence, that philosophy does everything toefface, this indeed is why philosophy is the testing ground for swindling andwhy one cannot say that poetry does not play, in its own way, innocently, atwhat I called just now, what I connoted as imaginarily symbolic, that iscalled the Truth.This is called the Truth notably concerning the sexual relationship, namely,that, as I put it, - perhaps the first, and I do not see why I would give myselfa title for it – there is no sexual relationship, I mean properly speaking, inthe sense that there might be something to ensure that a man necessarilyrecognises a woman.It is certain that I, that I have this weakness of recognising her as the (la),but I am all the same sufficiently aware to have noted that there is no the,103