Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

moment and what is going to introduce us to what follows, is that, even though,at B2, Bozef in the semblance, could still lay claim to a little bit of being by saying:‘He knows, but he does not know and I can all the same still be’, at B3, because ofwhat one could call ‘the absolute knowledge of the Other’, Bozef, the position ofthe cogito of Bozef will be completely dispossessed of his thought. At that level, ifthe other knows everything, it is not because the Other knows everything, it isbecause he can no longer hide anything from the Other, but the problem is tohide what? Because what is revealed to the Other at that moment, is not so muchthe lie in which Bozef held him, it is that there emerges for Bozef at that momentthe fact that his lie reveals to him that in fact, behind this lie, there was hidden alie of a completely different nature and another dimension. If the king is in thisposition, in this position of R3 in which he would know everything, this all,namely, the most radical incognito of Bozef, which disappears, Bozef is in theposition, in the position in which he find himself and what I am going to show you,corresponds to what Lacan names the position of the eclipsing of the subject, offading before the signifier of demand, which is written on the graph – this alsodesignates the drive, I am not going to talk about that now - $◊D.I must continue now, I would like you to sense that since at R3 nothing more canbe hidden, while there is opening up for the subject B3 the last hiding place,namely, the one that he did not know was hidden. And what he uncovers, is thatby involuntarily hiding, by having a lie that he can designate, he avoided in fact alie of which he knew nothing, which dwelt in him and which constituted him assubject. Therefore, this knowledge of which he knew nothing is going to emergeat R3 with respect to the Other who henceforth knows everything. When I say‘emerge with regard to the Other’, it is really in the proper sense that thisexpression must be understood, for he does not emerge with respect to thisOther, it is precisely what was withdrawn during the originating creation of theSubject, what was withdrawn from the Subject, the signifier S 2 , and whichconstituted him as such, as subject supporting speech, as subject acceding tospeech in the demand of the fact of the withdrawal of this signifier S 2 . Now, whathappens? Here we have the signifier S 2 reappearing in the Real, for that is whatmust be said.66