Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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You see that here I cut doubly through the green line, I cut the torus. If wejoin these two cuts with the help of a stretched plane, we get a Moebiusstrip. That indeed is why that is here (1) and on the other hand what is here(2) constitutes a double Moebius strip. I say double, what does that mean?That means a Moebius strip which is redoubled; and a Moebius strip whichis redoubled has as property – as I already showed you the last time – has asproperty, not of being two Moebius strips, but being a single Moebius stripwhich looks like this, - let us try to do better – which looks in this way likethe result of the double cut of the torus. [double Moebius strip andMoebius strip]The question is the following: is this double Moebius strip in this shape orthat one. In other words, does it go – I am speaking about one of the loops –does it pass in front of the following loop, or does it pass behind? It issomething which is obviously not unimportant from the moment that we26
proceed to this double cut, a double cut which has the result of determiningthis double Moebius strip.I drew this figure very badly for you. Thanks to Gloria, I am going to try todraw it better: here is how it ought to be drawn. I do not know if you see italtogether clearly, but it is certain that the Moebius strip is redoubled in theway you see here. This is the point at which I am not really very satisfiedabout what I am in the process of showing you. I mean, since I spent thenight cogitating on this business of the torus, I cannot say that what I amgiving you here is very satisfying.What appears as a result of what I called this double Moebius strip which Iam asking you to put to the test, a test which you can experiment with in asimple way, with the simple condition of taking two sheets of paper anddrawing on them a capital S, something like the following.Be careful because this capital S demands tobe drawn first with a small curve and thenwith a big curve. Just here the small curveand afterwards the big curve. If you cut outtwo of them on a sheet of double paper, youwill see that by folding the two things thatyou will have cut onto a single sheet ofpaper, you will naturally obtain a junction of the number 1 sheet of paperwith the number 2 sheet of paper, and of the number 2 sheet of paper withthe number 1 sheet of paper, namely, that you will have what I designatedjust now as a double Moebius strip. You can easily note that this doubleMoebius strip is cut – if I can express myself in this way – indifferently. Imean that what here is above, then passes beneath, then subsequently havingpassed beneath repasses above. It is a matter of indifference to make passwhat first of all passed above, one can make it pass below. You will noteeasily that this double Moebius strip functions in either case.27
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accentuated by him is the search fo
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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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y writing. And writing only produce
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