Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

propose, is that one can comprehend at that moment the instinctual reversalof which Freud speaks and Lacan takes up again, the instinctual reversal thatI am going to put on the top of the graph, as the passage to a second mode ofseparation and this instinctual reversal, as one might say, as a secondattempt at approaching the lost object but this time from a differentperspective: from the perspective of the subject. Let me explain: if youwish, in the first moment that I postulate, I would say that while I recognisemyself as listener, the switching point that comes, which means that now Iam going to pass to the other side, can be articulated as follows, namely, toadvance that when I recognise myself as listener, one could say that thistime it is me, I am recognised as listener by the music which comes to me,namely, that the music, what was an answer and which gave rise to aquestion in me, things are inverted, namely, that the music becomes aquestion which assigns me, as subject, to respond myself to this question,namely, that you see that the music is constituted as listening to me, assubject finally – let us call it by its name – as subject supposed to hear andthe music, the production, that which was the inaugural answer becomes thequestion, the production therefore of the musician subject being constitutedas subject supposed to hear, assigns me in this position of subject and I amgoing to answer it by a transference love. In this way one cannot fail toarticulate the fact that music produces all the time effectively love-effects,as one might say.I come back again to this notion of lost object from the following angle: thefact is that you have not failed to remark that what is proper to the effect of34