Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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I imagine that after this second and third moment where the subject and theOther continue their paths side by side always separated by the separatingsmall o, what is the position with respect to our starting point, where havewe got to? Well then, the point, one could say, on to which the subjectemerges, is that after this second and third moment, he has found theassurance that this little separating o, he has found the assurance that it waseffectively impossible to encounter it, since he only managed to go aroundit, but he had needed to make several dialectical movements in order tohave, I would say, like – I don’t know if this is the right word – to have as itwere a kind of certainty that is going perhaps to allow him to make a newleap, which will be my fourth moment, a new leap that is going to allow himat that moment to pass to a new kind of enjoyment, to risk himself in it. Isaid ‘s’y risquer’ because it is not obvious that one will arrive at what I amcalling this fourth moment that I will all the same mark. I am telling youthat one can imagine a last moment which would be the terminal point, thepoint not of return, since the drive does not come back to the starting point,but the ultimate, possible point of the drive, I marked the enjoyment of theOther, and the little schema, the new schema of separation, the third that Iam inscribing, represents the schema of separation, no longer with the littleo-object in the lunula, but with the signifier S(Ø), and the signifier S 2 , asignifier that Lacan teaches us to situate as being that of the Urverdrängung.Why am I marking that? I would say that, the whole journey having beenmade, that it is from the point of view of the subject, of the Other and ofsecond other, it is confirmed that the object is really volatilised; one mayimagine that at this moment the subject is going to make a leap, is no longergoing to be content to be separated from the Other by the little o-object butis going to veritably proceed to an attempt to go through the phantasy; thereis a passage in seminar II, well before Lacan speaks about the problem ofthe enjoyment of the Other, where Lacan on the subject of the drive and ofsublimation, asks the question, he asks himself how the drive is experiencedafter the phantasy has been gone through. And Lacan adds: ‘It is no longerof the domain of analysis, but is the beyond of analysis’. Now if we recall38
that the little o-object is not uniquely, as one so often hears it said,essentially characterised by the fact that it is the missing object, it iscertainly the missing object, but its function of being the missing object isspecified very particularly, let us say, in the phenomenon of anxiety butbesides this function, one could say that its fundamental function is muchmore rather to fill in this radical gap which renders so imperious thenecessity of demand. If there is really something lacking in this speakingbeing, it is not the little o-object, it is this gap in the Other which isarticulated with the S of Ø. That is why at the end of this instinctual circuit,to account for the experience of the listener, I am putting forward the ideathe nature of the enjoyment to which one can accede at the end of thejourney is not at all on the side of a ‘surplus enjoying’, but precisely on theside of this experience of this enjoyment, that perhaps one might call‘ecstatic’, enjoyment of existence itself – moreover as regards the term‘ecstatic enjoyment’ I was struck at finding Levi-Strauss writing on the onehand, in a number of Musique en jeu where Levi-Strauss puts very preciselyin perspective the nature, not of the enjoyment, in fact the experience ofmusic and that which appears to him to be that of mystical experience.Freud himself, in a letter to Romain Rolland, finds himself answering,spontaneously articulating that he refused himself musical enjoyment andthat this musical enjoyment appeared to him as strange as what RomainRolland was saying to him about enjoyments of a mystical order; anyway itis he himself who articulated the two, who had the idea of introducing musicinto it.Final moment then, where the subject will make the leap, I don’t knowwhether one can say ‘beyond’ or ‘behind’ the little o-object, but willmanage to break through and arrive at this locus, one might say of thecommemoration of the unconscious being as such, namely, the joining up ofthe most radical lacks which are those which constitute the gap of thesubject of the unconscious and that of the unconscious, namely, to put theexperience of this..., one might say that in the final moment, if you wish,one might say that the real as impossible is a white heat, is raised toincandescence; at that very moment, I mean, I would indicate, for my part,39
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