Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

functioning as something else. And this other thing that they function as, isindeed that by which sound and sense are closely united.It is in as much as a correct interpretation extinguishes a symptom, that the truthis specified as being poetic. It is not from the angle of articulated logic – eventhough on occasion I slip into it – it is not from the angle of articulated logic thatwe must sense the import of our saying, not at all of course that there issomething which deserves to have two aspects. What we enunciate always,because it is the law of discourse, what we always enunciate as a system ofopposition, is the very thing that we have to surmount, and the first thing wouldbe to extinguish the notion of the Beautiful.We have nothing beautiful to say. A different resonance is at stake, one foundedon the witticism. A witticism is not beautiful, it depends only on an equivocation,or, as Freud said, on an economy. Nothing is more ambiguous than this notion ofeconomy. But all the same, economy founds value. A practice without value iswhat we must establish.116