Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

Effectively the problem of primary repression, one cannot say that the return ofthe primary repression is produced in the Symbolic as secondary repressionwould, since it is itself the author of it. If it comes back, it can only be because inthe Real and it is insofar that it is as such it manifests, I would say by a look, a lookof the Real, before which the Subject is absolutely without recourse.I am not going to go on about that, but if you reflect on it, you will see that theposition of knowledge implied by R3, by the Other at R3, could correspond towhat happens, if you wish, in that which is supposed to be the Last Judgement, atthis point where the subject will not be accused finally of lying in the present,since precisely at the point B3 – R3 he is no longer lying, since he is revealed in hisnon being, but what is subsequently revealed to him, is that he did not cease to liein the imperfect, even though he said a word. This position can also indicate toyou, Knowledge at R3 can also open up perspectives, if you want to reflect, onwhat might be involved in racist or segregationist knowledge, but this would be aposition of knowledge in which I would see the subject incarnate this S 2 in theReal.As you see these are paths that I am launching here, since it is not our subject andI’m not going to come back to it. It would also be necessary to articulate thereturn of this S 2 into the Real with what is involved in terms of delusion, toseriously articulate the aphanisis and the delusional position in the measure thatin the two cases the signifier returns to the Real, but nevertheless one could saythat in the case of the non-psychotic who loses speech like the psychotic,nevertheless one could compare his position to that of these peoples invaded byforeigners who carry out a politics of scorched earth, who burn everything, whoburn everything in order to keep something, namely, that the invasion is not total.And what is effectively maintained, what remains once the subject disappears,since, if you reflect on it, what is happening at R3, is that the signifier of theUrverdrängung returning into the Real, it is nothing less than primal repression,the subject of the unconscious which disappears: if you like, the bar of theunconscious, this bar which separates the o and S 2 being barred, makes themappear in S 2 in the Real and in the o in the Real, and that is what remains, and thatthis is a position of total desubjectification.67