Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

In short, one must all the same raise the question of whether psychoanalysis,- Ibeg your pardon, at least I beg the pardon of psychoanalysts – is not what onecould call an autism à deux? There is already a thing which allows this autism tobe forced, this precisely that lalangue is a common affair and it is precisely therethat I am, namely, capable of making myself understood by everybody here, this iswhere the guarantee is – this is why indeed I put on the agenda the transmissionof psychoanalysis – this indeed is the guarantee that psychoanalysis does not limpirreducibly from what I called just now autism à deux.People speak about the ruse of reason; it is a philosophical idea. It was Hegel whoinvented that. There is not the slightest ruse of reason. There is nothingconstant, contrary to what Freud enunciates somewhere, that the voice of reasonwas low, but that it always repeated the same thing. It only repeats things bygoing around in circles. In order to say things, reason repeats the symptom. Andthe fact that today I have to present myself before you with what is called aphysical sinthome, does not prevent you from asking quite rightly whether it isnot intentional, whether for example I have not got into such stupid behaviourthat my symptom, however physical it may be, may be something all the samewished for by me. There is no reason to stop in this extension of the symptombecause it is something suspect, whether one likes it or not. Why should thissymptom not be intentional?It is a fact that l’élangue, I am writing that élangue, is elongated by translating oneinto the other, but the only knowledge remains the knowledge of tongues, thatkinship is not translated in fact, but the only thing it has in common is the fact thatanalysers talk only about that. It has even got to the point that what I call onoccasion an old analyst is tired of it.Why did Freud not introduce something that he would call the lui (him)? When Iwrote my little yoke there, in order to talk to you, I made a slip – another one! –instead of writing comme moi – this comme moi was not especially benevolent, itwas a matter of what I would call mental debility, - I made a slip, at the place ofcomme moi I wrote comme ça. To write – since all of that is written, that is even112