Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

topology encourages us to do so. The world system up to now has alwaysbeen spheroidal. Perhaps we might change! The world has always beenpainted, up to the present, like that, as regards what men have enunciated,has been painted inside a bubble. The living being considers himself as aball, but with time he all the same realised that he was not a ball, a bubble.Why not recognise that he is organised, I mean what one sees of the livingbody, that he is organised at what I called the other day a rod.There you are, I am trying to draw it like that. It is obvious that this is howthere ends up what we know about the body as consistent. This is calledecto, that endo and then around, there is meso. That is how it is made; herethere is the mouth and here the contrary, the posterior mouth. Only this rodis nothing other than a torus. The fact that we are toric goes rather well inshort with what I called the other day, rod (trique). It is an elision of the o:t()rique.So then this leads us to consider that the hysteric whom everyone knows isjust as well male as female, the hystorique 5 if I may allow myself thisslippage, we must consider in short that she is – I am feminising it on thisoccasion, but as you are going to see I am going to put my weight on theother side, that will largely suffice to demonstrate to you that I do not thinkthat there are only feminine hysterics – the hystorique in short has only an5 Condensing ‘hysterique’ and ‘torique’15