slipp<strong>in</strong>g from word to word, and this <strong>in</strong>deed is what is at stake when we use thewrong key to open a door which precisely this key does not open. Freud hastensto tell us that we thought that it opened this door but that we were mistaken.Bévue is <strong>in</strong>deed the only sense that rema<strong>in</strong>s for this consciousness. Consciousnesshas no other support than to permit a bévue. It is very disturb<strong>in</strong>g because thisconsciousness strongly resembles the Unconscious, s<strong>in</strong>ce it is what we say isresponsible, responsible for all the bévue’s that make us dream. Dream <strong>in</strong> thename of what? Of what I called the o-object, namely, that by which by thesubject, who, essentially, is divided, barred, namely, still more barred than theOther.This is what I am rack<strong>in</strong>g my bra<strong>in</strong>s about. I am rack<strong>in</strong>g my bra<strong>in</strong>s and I th<strong>in</strong>k thatwhen all is said and done psychoanalysis, is, is what seems true (fait vrai), but howmust one understand this seems true? It is an effort at sense, but it is a sensblance(sens blant). There is the whole distance that I designated between S 2 towhat it produces. It is of course the analyser who produces the analyst, there isno doubt about that. And that is why I question myself about what is <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong>this status of the analyst to whom I leave this place of seem<strong>in</strong>g true, ofsemblance, and of whom I consider, that it is moreover, there where you haveseen it formerly, there is noth<strong>in</strong>g easier than to slip <strong>in</strong>to the bévue, I mean <strong>in</strong>to aneffect of the Unconscious, s<strong>in</strong>ce it was <strong>in</strong>deed an effect of my unconscious, whichmeans that you were good enough to consider a slip, and not as what I wanted toqualify myself, namely, the next time as a crude error. [Bars and arrow]o > $S 2 S 1What effect does this subject, divided subject have if the S 1 , the signifier <strong>in</strong>dexed1, S <strong>in</strong>dex 1, is found <strong>in</strong> our tetrahedron, s<strong>in</strong>ce what I stressed, is that, <strong>in</strong> thistetrahedron, one of its l<strong>in</strong>ks is always broken, namely, that the S <strong>in</strong>dex 1 does notrepresent the subject for S <strong>in</strong>dex 2, namely, of the Other. The S <strong>in</strong>dex 1 and the S<strong>in</strong>dex 2, is very precisely what I designated by the divided O of which I made asignifier S(Ø).120
This <strong>in</strong>deed is the way <strong>in</strong> which the famous Unconscious presents itself. ThisUnconscious, is, when all is said and done, impossible to grasp. It does notrepresent, - I spoke earlier about paradoxes as be<strong>in</strong>g representable, namely,depictable – there is no possible depiction of the Unconscious. The Unconsciousis limited to an attribution, to a substance, to someth<strong>in</strong>g that is supposed to bebeneath and what psychoanalysis enunciates, is very precisely the follow<strong>in</strong>g, thatit is only, I say, a deduction, a supposed deduction, noth<strong>in</strong>g more. That withwhich I tried to give it body with the creation of the Symbolic has very preciselythis dest<strong>in</strong>y which is that this does not arrive at its dest<strong>in</strong>ation.How does it happen nevertheless that it is enunciated? That is the central<strong>in</strong>troduction of psychoanalysis. I will stick with that for today. I hope to be able <strong>in</strong>a week’s time, s<strong>in</strong>ce there will be a 17 May, - God knows why! – anyway it hasbeen announced to me that there will be a 17 May, and that here I have not toomany exam<strong>in</strong>ees, unless it is you that I will exam<strong>in</strong>e and perhaps I will question <strong>in</strong>the hope that someth<strong>in</strong>g of what I say have got across. Au revoir!121
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