Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

which I will return later, what is the only thing that he can say to him? He will sayto him: ‘It is you’. An ‘it is you’ that is extended moreover – I will come back onthis later, into ‘it is us’. And the single word that he can say to him, he says to himat the same time: there is only one person to whom I can say it and it is alreadyfrom topology that we can see that one word can only be given at one locus andthat the tongue itself shows you that it knows this topology since it tells you thatsomeone that has speech has only one and cannot have another; someone whohas no speech, precisely has only one and at the same time there is the notion inthe tongue of the destination, since, to give his word, is only conceivable if onecan keep it namely, in fact a word that can be kept, the point therefore at which Iarrive, is that the message delivered is this ‘it is you’ and I am going to write it foryou in a way at a certain level, I am going to write a letter which is going to gofrom B3 to R3, B3 and R3 are going to meet at the level of this message which Iwill further explicitate now as being this S of Ø. I am going to give you a first wayof writing it.What I have drawn on the schema on the left is that when Bozef with his back tothe wall this time can only say one word to the king by the very fact that headdresses this word to the king, the king one last time is displaced, migrates,migrates from the place where he was, namely, of the Real, migrates anew intothe locus, into the symbolic locus where there is found in the position of R4, Bozefsaying ‘It is you’ who is in the position of B4, the S(O), I am writing of the meeting,of the communion between B4 and R4, both putting in common at that momenttheir bar and that is why I wrote in the lunlua S 2 and S(O); I hope to be able toexplicitate more rigorously in what is going to follow.The point of the enigma on which I would like to keep you, is that, in the messagedelivered at S(Ø), in the ‘it is you’, is that the subject who keeps his word – as wehave seen – is here in a position much more of keeping it, but of supporting it,which is something quite different. What does it mean to sustain a word? It ismuch easier first of all to say what it is not, for example someone who says toyou: ‘I think that, when Lacan says the unconscious is structured like a language, Ithink that he is right, I agree with him’, even if the subject may assure himself ofhis thinking in all good faith by thinking that he thinks that the unconscious is69