Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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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
is itself a hole and in a certain way represents the body. But that this shouldbe confirmed by the fact that this Moebius strip which I already chose toexpress the fact that the conjunction of a front and a back is somethingwhich symbolises rather well the union of the unconscious and theconscious, is something which is worthwhile remembering.Can we consider a sphere as a hole in space? This is obviously verysuspect. It is very suspect because this pre-supposes, it pre-supposessomething that is not self-evident, the plunging into space. It is equally truefor the torus, and that is why it is by dividing the torus into two sheets, if Ican express myself in that way, into two sheets capable of making a doubleturn, that we rediscover the surface, namely, something that to our eyes ismore assured, is more assured in any case to found what is involved in ahole.It is clear that it is not today or yesterday that I made use of theseconcatenations. Already to symbolise the circuit, the cutting of desire anddemand, I made use of this, namely, of the torus. I had distinguished twomodes of it, namely, what went around the torus, and on the other hand whatwent around the central hole. In this respect the identification of thedemand to what is presented like this, and of desire to what is presented likethat, was altogether significant.There is something that I pointed out the last time, namely, this, whichconsists in a torus, within a torus. If you mark these two tori, the two of21
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the object of desire is not unknown
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that he tells the truth. You see th
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look of the Real, there is not, for
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accentuated by him is the search fo
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What is happening, is it not, the d
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grounded and articulatable way, and
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eason is said to be purloined, whil
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Borromean knot with that of the Ima
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Alain Didier Weill, for his part, i
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Seminar 8: Wednesday 8 March 1977Wh
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shouldn’t tell you, at 7.15 at Ju
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means that the tongue fails, that,
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of his time as a formidable cleric
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It is very difficult not to waver o
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I remind you that the place of semb
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this term in the feminine, since th
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which coincides with my experience,
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and to put that for you in black an
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see, does not see too great an inco
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that exists, he says what he believ
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In short, one must all the same rai
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particular besides, neurotic, a sex
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functioning as something else. And
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mean to deny? What can one deny? Th
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slipping from word to word, and thi
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Seminar 12: 17 May 1977People in th
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y writing. And writing only produce
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not pinpointed it? He calls this a
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