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Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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<strong>Sem<strong>in</strong>ar</strong> 3: Wednesday 21 December 1976I am delighted that because of the holidays you are less numerous, at least Iwas delighted, I was delighted ahead of time. But I should tell you thattoday....If <strong>in</strong> a systematic cutt<strong>in</strong>g up of a torus, a cutt<strong>in</strong>g up which has the result ofproduc<strong>in</strong>g a double Moebius strip, this cutt<strong>in</strong>g up is present here. The torusis there and to signify it, to dist<strong>in</strong>guish it from the double loop, I am go<strong>in</strong>gwith the same colour as the torus <strong>in</strong> question, draw for you a little r<strong>in</strong>g (1)which has the effect of designat<strong>in</strong>g what is <strong>in</strong>side the torus and what isoutside. [<strong>in</strong>terchange 1&2]If we cut out someth<strong>in</strong>g of such a k<strong>in</strong>d that here, if we were to cut the torusaccord<strong>in</strong>g to someth<strong>in</strong>g (2) which, as I told you, has the result of furnish<strong>in</strong>ga double Moebius strip, we can only do so by th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g of what is <strong>in</strong>side thetorus – what is <strong>in</strong>side the torus by reason of the cut that we make on it - asconjo<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the two cuts <strong>in</strong> such a way that the ideal plane which jo<strong>in</strong>s thesetwo cuts should be a Moebius strip.25

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