Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

and me, and I who, in short, by dint of having an unconscious unity with myunconscious, the difference is this, it is that, in short, a hysteric is sustainedin her form as rod, is sustained by a framework. This framework is in shortdistinct from her consciousness. This framework is her love for her father.All that we know about the cases enunciated by Freud concerning thehysteric, whether it is Anna O., Emmy von N., or any other of them, theother von R., for example, the setting, is something that I designated earlieras a chain, a chain of generations.It is quite clear that from the moment that one is engaged along this path,there is no reason why it should stop, namely, that here there can besomething else that constitutes a chain and that it is a question of seeing –this cannot go very far – of seeing how this on occasion will constitute a rodwith respect to love, the love of the father in question.That does not mean that it is settled and that one can here schematise theturning inside out of this torus around torus 2, let us call it that, that one canschematise it by a rod. There is perhaps something which creates anobstacle, and very specifically that’s what it’s all about; the fact that the17