Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

The distinction between the shape and the structure is important here. It isnot for nothing that I marked here something which is a torus, is a toruseven though its shape does not allow this to appear. Is the shape somethingwhich lends itself to suggestion? Here is the question that I am posing, andthat I pose while advancing the primacy of the structure.Here it is difficult for me not to put forward the fact that the Klein bottle,this old Klein bottle that I made so much of, if I remember correctly, in theFour fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, this old Klein bottle has inreality that shape there. It is strictly nothing other than this, except for thefact that for it to become a bottle we correct it in this way (in red), namelythat we have made it come back in the following shape, that we have madeit come back in such a way that we no longer comprehend anything about itsessential nature. Is there not effectively, in the fact of calling it a bottle, isthere not here a falsification, a falsification with respect to the fact that onlyits presentation here in green is the something that precisely allows it to beimmediately grasped the way in which the junction of the front is made withthe back, namely everything that is cut out in this surface, on condition ofmaking it complete, and that is again a question: what is meant by making acut which involves the whole of the surface?These are the questions that I ask myself and that I hope to be able toresolve this year, I mean that this brings us to something fundamental as30