Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

what constitutes saying – to write that the analyser gets on as best he can withme also means me with him. That analysis talks only about the Ego and the Id,never of Lui, is all the same very striking. Lui nevertheless, is a term which shouldbe required, and if Freud disdains taking note of it, it is indeed, it must be said,because he is egocentric, and even super-egocentric! That is what he is sick of.He has all the vices of the master, he understands nothing about anything. Forthe only master, it has to be said, is consciousness, and what he says about theunconscious is only confusion and entanglement, namely, a return to this mixtureof crude drawings and of metaphysics which are never there without one another.Every painter is above all a metaphysician, a metaphysician that he is due to thefact that he makes crude drawings. He is a dauber, hence the titles that he givesto his paintings. Even abstract art is titled (se titrise) like the others – I did notwant to say entitled (titularisé) because that would mean nothing – even abstractart has titles, titles that it strives to make as empty as it can, but all the same itgives itself titles.Without that, Freud would have drawn the consequences of what he says himselfthat the analyser does not know his truth, since he cannot say it. Which I definedas not ceasing to be written, namely, the symptom, is an obstacle to it. I amcoming back to it. What the analyser says while waiting to be verified, is not thetruth, it is the varité of the symptom. One must accept the conditions of themental in the first rank of which is debility, which means the impossibility ofholding a discourse against which there is no objection, no mental one precisely.The mental is discourse. One does one’s best to arrange for discourse to leavetraces. This is the business of the Entwurf, of Freud’s Project, but memory isuncertain. What we know, is that there are lesions of the body that we cause, ofthe body described as living, which suspend memory or at least do not allow usthere to count on the traces one attributes to it when the memory of discourse isat stake.Objections must be raised to the practice of psychoanalysis. Freud was a mentaldefective, like everyone, and like me myself on this particular occasion, in113