Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

made by chance, not that Freud did not work desperately hard at it, but hedid not say the last word on it. He specifically never enunciated thefollowing, which is that the world is toric. He believed, as every notion ofthe psyche implies, that there was something that I earlier dismissed bysaying a loop, and another loop around the first, this one being in themiddle, he believed that there was a vigilance, a vigilance that he called thepsyche, a vigilance which reflected the cosmos point by point. In this hewas aware of what is considered as a common truth, which is that thepsyche is the reflection of a certain world.That I am enunciating this in terms, I repeat, of something tentative, becauseI do not see why I would be any more sure about what I am putting forward,even though there are many elements which give the feeling of it, andspecifically from the outset what I put forward about the structure of thebody, of the body considered as what I called a rod.That the living being, every living being, is denominated as rod, issomething that a certain number of studies, moreover crudely anatomical,have always seen themselves confirm. That the torus should be somethingwhich is presented as having two holes around which something consists, issomething that is simply obvious. I repeat, it was not necessary to constructa lot of specifically microscopic apparatuses, it is something that has alwaysbeen known, since simply people began to dissect, began to do the mostmacroscopic anatomy.That one can cut the torus in such a way that it becomes a double turnMoebius strip is certainly to be noted. In a certain way, the torus in question20