Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

It is flattened out, and in a way that you know, because I repeated, resifted it, youknow the value of the function, namely, that the effect this has is that if one ofthe 3 dissolves, the 2 others are freed. This is what I described, at one time, bythe term knot for something that is not a knot, but effectively a chain. This chainall the same, it is striking that it can be flattened out.And I would say that – it is a reflection, like that, which was inspired in me by thefact that as regards the Real, people want to identify it to matter (la matière) – Iwould rather propose to write it like this ‘l’âme à tiers’ 7 (third party soul?). Itwould be, like that, a more serious way of referring oneself to this something thatwe have to deal with, and it is not for nothing that it is homogenous to the twoothers; that someone named Charles - Sanders as he was called, as you know, Ialready wrote this name often, many, many times, - that this Peirce was reallystruck by the fact that language does not properly speaking express relation, thatindeed is something which is striking; that language does not permit a notationlike x having a certain type of relation with y, and no other; this indeed is whatauthorises me, since Peirce himself articulates that for this there would need tobe a ternary logic, and not the one we use, a binary logic, this indeed is whatauthorises me to speak about l’âme à tiers’ as something which necessitates acertain type of logical relationships.Yes. Well then, all the same, I am going in effect to come to this Philosophie eneffet, a collection published by Aubier-Flammarion, to say what scared me a little7 Pun on la matière.45