Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

short I called the discourses; the saids, it is the ‘saying which succours’ (‘dire quisecourt’). We must all the same take advantage of what the tongue in which wespeak offers us in terms of equivocation. What succours, is it the saying or is itthe said? In the analytic hypothesis, it is the saying; it is the saying, namely theenunciating, the enunciating of what I called earlier the Truth. And in these ‘diresecours’,I had, the year when I spoke about L’envers de la psychoanalyse – youcertainly do not remember it – I had, like that, distinguished in general 4 of them,because I was amusing myself precisely at making a sequence of 4 revolve, and inthis sequence of 4, the Truth, the Truth of the saying, the Truth was only in shortimplied, since as perhaps you remember...yes, as you perhaps remember, it waspresented like that, I mean that it was the discourse of the master that was theleast true discourse. [impossibility]The least true, that means the most impossible. I noted in effect the impossibilityof this discourse, at least this was the way in which I reproduced it in what waspublished of Radiophonie.This discourse is lying and it is precisely by that that it reaches the Real.Verdrängung, was what Freud called that; and nevertheless, it is indeed a saidwhich succours him. Everything that is said is a swindle. It is not simply aboutwhat is said starting from the unconscious. What is said starting from theunconscious, participates in equivocation, in equivocation which is the principle ofthe witticism: the equivalence of sound and sense, it was in the name of that thatI believed I could advance that the unconscious was structured like a language.I noticed, like that a little bit too late and in connection with something whichappeared in Lexique et Grammaire or else Langue Française, a trimestrial journal;it is a little article that I would advise you to look at very closely because it is by43