Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

in what makes its way in short from something that I inaugurated by mydiscourse. There is a book which has appeared by someone called NicolasAbraham and someone called Maria Torok. It is called Cryptonymie, whichsufficiently indicates the equivocation, namely that the name is hidden there, andit is called Le verbier de l’homme aux loups. I don’t know, there are perhaps somepeople here who attended my elucubrations on the Wolfman. It was in thisconnection that I spoke about the foreclosure of the name of the father. Leverbier de l’homme aux loups is something where, if words have a sense, I believeI recognise the thrust of what I have always articulated, namely, that the signifieris what is involved in the unconscious, and that, the fact that the unconscious, isthat in short one speaks – if indeed there is something of the parlêtre – that onespeaks all alone, that one speaks all alone, because one never says anything butone and the same thing which in short is upsetting, hence its defence andeverything that is elucubrated about so-called resistances. It is altogether strikingthat resistance – I have said it – is something which takes its starting point in theanalyst himself and that the goodwill of the analyser never encounters anythingworse than the resistance of the analyst.Psychoanalysis, - I have said it, I repeated it quite recently, - is not a science. Itdoes not have its status as science and it can only wait for it, hope for it. But it is adelusion from which one is awaiting a science to be brought forth. It is a delusionthat one is waiting to bring forth a science. One can wait for a long time. One canwait for a long time, I said why, simply because there is no progress and that whatone is expecting is not necessarily what one is going to get. It is a scientificdelusion therefore, and one is expecting that it will bring forth a science but thatdoes not mean that analytic practice will ever bring forth this science.It is a science that has all the less chance of maturing in that it is antinomical; andall the same, by the use that we make of it, we know that it has its relationshipsbetween science and logic. There is a thing which, I should say, astonishes meastonishes me still more than the broadcasting, the broadcasting which I knowwell is happening, the broadcasting of what is called my teaching, my ideas –because that means that I have ideas – the broadcasting of my teaching to thiswhich makes its way under the name of Institut de Psychanalyse, the thing that46