Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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Good, I would like all the same to give the floor to someone whom I asked tocome here to express a certain number of things which seem to me to be worthy,altogether worthy of being enunciated. In other words I think that Alain DidierWeil is someone who is not badly engaged in his business. What I can tell you, isthat, for me, I was very attached to flattening out something. Flattening outalways participates in a system, it simply participates in it, which is not saying alot. A flattening out, for example that I made for you with the Borromean knot, isa system. I am trying of course to crush this Borromean knot, and this indeed iswhat you see in these two images.The ideal, the Ego Ideal, in short would mean finishing with the Symbolic, in otherwords saying nothing. What is this demoniacal force which pushes forward to saysomething, in other words to teach, is what I have come to tell is that, theSuperego. That is what Freud designated by the Superego which, of course, hasnothing to do with any condition that could be designated as natural. On thesubject of this natural, I ought all the same signal something to you, it is that Ifound myself strongly drawn to read something which appeared in the RoyalSociety of London and which is an ‘Essay on dew’. This had the greatest esteem ofsomeone called Herschel who wrote something entitled ‘Discours préliminaire surl’étude de la philosophie naturelle’. What most strikes me in this ‘Essay on dew’,is that it is of no interest. I obtained it, of course, at the Bibliothèque Nationalewhere I have like that from time to time a particular person who makes an effortfor me, a person who is a musicologist there and who is in short not too badlyplaced to obtain for me on occasion, since I had no other means of getting thisoriginal text which at a pinch I might have managed to read. What I asked her forwas a translation. It had been translated in effect, this‘Essay on dew’, this ‘Essayon dew’ had been translated from its author William Charles Wells, it wastranslated by someone called Tordeux, a master in pharmacy and you really haveto force yourself enormously to find it of the slightest interest. That proves thatnot all natural phenomena interest us as much, and dew quite particularly, we slipover the surface of that. It is all the same curious that dew, for example, has notthe same interest that Descartes succeeded in giving to the rainbow. Dew is asnatural a phenomenon as the rainbow. Why does it not have any particularimportance for us? It is very strange and it is quite certain that it is by reason of60
its relationship to the body that we do not have the same lively interest in dew asin the rainbow, because the rainbow, we have the feeling that this opens out tothe theory of light, at least we have this feeling since Descartes demonstrated it.Yes. Anyway, I am perplexed about the little interest that we have in dew. It iscertain that there is something centred on the functions of the body, whichensures that we give a sense to certain things. Dew lacks a little sense. That atleast is what I can bear witness to after reading as attentively as I could this ‘Essayon dew’. And now I am going to give the floor to Alain Didier Weill, whileapologising for having delayed him a little; he will have no more than an hourand-aquarter to speak to you, instead I think of what I guaranteed for him, whichwas an hour-and-half.Alain Didier Weill is going to speak to you about something which has arelationship to Knowledge, namely, ‘I know’ or ‘he knows’. It is on thisrelationship between ‘I know’ and ‘he knows’ that he is going to play.- Alain Didier Weill: Can we say that I am going to talk about the Passe?- Lacan: You can also talk about the Passe.[ADW’s lengthy intervention has been included for completeness but has not been ascarefully translated and revised as Lacan’s own words. CG]- Alain Didier Weill: The point from which I came to propose to Dr Lacan theseelucubrations that I am going to submit to you, comes from what is representedfor me by what is called in the Ecole Freudienne, the Passe. Effectively a rumourcirculates for some time in the School, which is that the results of the Passe whichis supposed to have functioned for a certain number of years, did not respond tothe hopes that had been put in it. Given that this idea, like that, that there is theidea of a failure of the past, this is something that personally I find hard to put upwith, in the Passe where for me it seems to guarantee what can preserve theessential and what is most living for the future of psychoanalysis; I cogitated onthe question a little, and I think I have eventually found what could account for atopological montage which does not exist and which would account for the factthat the jury d’agrement perhaps does not manage to use, and to use what is61
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