Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

the plane on the axis on the graph, on the axis of i of o; if you wish, it is a specularrelation. Another message arrives to Bozef that will be placed for its part on thetrajectory of subjectification, that I put in green, that will arrive directly thereforeon the plane through the symbolic plane. You see therefore that the importantthing here is the fact that Bozef who was in a position of foolishness, of thefoolishness of B1, because of the inversion of the message that comes back tohim, namely, this time the Other knows, is displaced. He can no longer remain atB1, he finds himself at B2. And at B2, I would say that he is here in the position ofsemblance, he can still support himself in the position that I would describe asthat of duplicity since at B2 he can still say to himself: ‘Yes, he knows, but he doesnot know that I know he knows’. So then I am now going to write, before goingany further, the first episode on Lacan’s graph.There, the position of the Other, the message leaves from the Other; there is theego position of Bozef that I am writing as B1. The message starts from Bozef whogives it to the messenger who would be i of o the message that I called m1,namely, that this circuit says: he does not know. The messenger does hisbusiness, transmits this message along this path which makes the king go from R1to R2. The effect starting from there, starting from the new position of the Otheris going to carry Bozef who was at B1, here an elementary subject effect whatLacan would call the signified of the Other, at the level of B2, namely, that one canalso draw this arrow.Bozef also receives a message,one might say, at the level in theaxis of o – o’ of the messenger.You see therefore that oursubject Bozef is at B2, I am nowgoing to make, to introduceanother graph of Lacan’s.I continue therefore, I left, as yousee, Bozef at B2, being sustainedby the position of duplicity that Ihave described for you, since he64