Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

inspired by it and its inspiration, the music bears witness to it. Good, this isthe starting point of what is to be noted.The other point is to consider that qua Other, I do not know what this lackwhich dwells in me is, but that the subject itself tells me nothing about thislack since this lack does not mean anything directly. The subject itself ofthis lack knows nothing and says nothing about it because he is said by thislack, but qua Other I would say that I am in a topological perspective wherethere appears to me the point where the subject is divided since he is said bythis lack, namely, that this lack which dwells in me, I discover that it is itsvery own, it itself knows nothing about what it is saying, but I know that itknows without knowing it. I am going therefore...You see that what I havesaid to you there could be written a little bit like what Lacan articulatesabout the process of separation. I am therefore going to articulate thedifferent moments of the drive with the different articulations of separation.Good.On the bottom left, I put the process of separation with an arrow which goesfrom the Ø (O with this lack put together between the capital O and thesubject, the little o-object, and this arrow is meant to signify that, I knownothing about this lack qua Other, but something of it comes back to mefrom the subject who for its part says something about it. That is why Iarticulate it with a drive, because it is just as if I wanted to manage toarticulate this lack, this nothing, hang something on it, know somethingabout it, let us say I trust the subject: I allow myself to be pushed by it – itis moreover the drive. I allow myself to be pushed by it and I expect that itwill give me this little o-object. But according as I advance, as I wait forthis subject, as I might say, what I discover is that in following the subject,the little o, all the two of us are doing is going around it. It is effectivelyinside the loop and I assure myself that effectively this little o isunattainable.I could say here that this is a first circuit and that, I have assured myself quaOther that he has effectively this character of lost objects, the idea that I33