Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

unconscious to make her consist, it is the radically other. She even is notexcept qua other. Well then, that’s the case for me. I also, I only have anunconscious. That is even why I think about it all the time. It has got to thepoint that – I can bear witness to you of it – it has got to the point that Ithink the universe toric and that it means nothing else, the fact is that I onlyconsist in an unconscious of which, of course, I think night and day, whichmeans that the une-bévue becomes inexact. I make so few blunders that it isthe same thing – naturally I make some from time to time, that is of littleimportance; I may happen to say in a restaurant ‘Mademoiselle is reduced toeating only shrimps à la nage’ [Mademoiselle en est réduit 6 a ne mangerque des écrevisses à la nage’], as long as that is where we are at, making anerror of this kind, does not matter. When all is said and done, I am a perfecthysteric, namely, symptomless except from time to time this error of genderof the kind in question.There is all the same, I would say, something that distinguishes the hystericfrom me on this particular occasion. But I am going to try to present it toyou. You can see how clumsy I am. There you are. That is two – I amcolouring this one here to give the direction – that means a torus that linksup with another one. Everyone knows, because I already indicated it the lasttime, that if you make a cut here and if you fold the torus you will obtain thefollowing: something which is presented like that, namely, whichreproduces what I called earlier the rod, except for the fact that what I drewearlier like that is there inside the rod. The difference between the hysteric6 Instead of the feminine ‘réduite’16