Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

mean to deny? What can one deny? This plunges us into the Verneinung ofwhich Freud has put forward the essentials. What he enunciates, is that negationpresupposes a Bejahung. It is starting from something that is enunciated aspositive, that one writes negation. In other words, the sign is to be sought – andthis indeed is what, in this agency of the letter, that I posed – is to be sought ascongruence of the sign to the Real.What is a sign that one cannot write? For one really writes this sign. I highlightedlike that, at one time, the pertinence of what the French lalangue touches on asadverb. Can one say that the Real lies (ment)? In analysis, one can surely say thatthe True lies. Analysis is a long journey (cheminement) – one finds it everywhere– that the chemine-ne-mente (the journey does not lie) it is something which canonly on occasion signal to us that, as in the wire of the telephone, that we find ourfooting.And then, that such things can be put forward poses the question of what issense. Is sense supposed to be only lying, since one can say that the notion of theReal excludes – which should be written in the subjunctive – that it excludes(qu’elle exclue) sense? Does that indicate that it also excludes the lie? Thisindeed is what we have to deal with, when we wager in short on the fact that theReal excludes – in the subjunctive, but the subjunctive is the indication of themodal – what is modulated in this modal that would exclude (excluerait) the lie?In truth, - we sense it clearly -, there is nothing in all of that but paradoxes.Are paradoxes representable? Doxa, is opinion, the first thing on which Iintroduced a lecture, at the time of what one can call or that one could call mybeginnings, it is in the Meno in which it is enunciated that doxa, is true opinion.There is not the slightest true opinion, since there are paradoxes. This is thequestion that I am raising, whether paradoxes are or are not representable, Imean depictable (dessinables). The principle of true saying, is negation, and mypractice, since there is a practice, a practice about which I question myself, is that,that I slide, I have to slide, because that is the way it is constructed, between thetransference, that is called, I do not know why, negative, but it is a fact that it iscalled that. It is called negative because people clearly sense that there is118