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Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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<strong>Sem<strong>in</strong>ar</strong> 5: Wednesday 18 January 1977This is rather laboured, so there you are, <strong>in</strong> truth,here, it is more or less the testimony, the testimony ofa failure, namely, that I have exhausted myself for 48hours, <strong>in</strong> mak<strong>in</strong>g what I would call, contrary to what is<strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> a plait (tresse), I exhausted myself for 48hours, <strong>in</strong> mak<strong>in</strong>g what I would call a ‘four-strandedplait’ (‘quatresse’). There you are [ Fig. V-2]The plait is at the pr<strong>in</strong>ciple of the Borromean knot.That is to say that after six times, one f<strong>in</strong>ds, providedone crosses these three threads <strong>in</strong> an appropriatefashion – good, so then, this means that at the end ofsix manoeuvres of the plait, you f<strong>in</strong>d <strong>in</strong> order, at thesixth manoeuvre, the 1, the 2 and the 3. This is whatconstitutes49

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