Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

This idea of a global unit which lives you, even though it is quite obvious that theId dialogues, and this is even what I designated by the name of capital O, the factis that there is something else, what I called earlier l’âme à tiers, l’âme à tierswhich is not simply the Real, which is something with which explicitly, I am saying,we do not have relations. With language we clamour after this thing, and what ismeant by S(Ø), that is what that means, which is that it does not answer. It is forthat reason that we talk all alone, that we talk all alone until there emerges whatis called an Ego, namely, something as regards which nothing guarantees that itmight not properly speaking be speaking deliriously. This indeed is the reason Ihighlight, like Freud moreover, that you do not have to look too closely at what iscalled psychoanalysis and that, between madness and mental debility, we canonly choose. That’s enough of that for today.48