Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

that he tells the truth. You see that the inquisitor, clearly spots what is at stake,namely, that it is in terms of an articulation between the two ‘I’s’, at the level ofthis S(Ø). And that is why, whatever he says, he does not demand an avowal ofthe heretic, but a disavowal. You sense the nuance between the two, since Ispoke to you earlier about the disavowal at the very heart of the inquisitor in thissplit of the two Others. This disavowal moreover, notice that I am not throwingstones at anyone, this disavowal lies in wait for us at every moment. It is not allthat rare to see for example an analyst in supervision who, at a given moment inhis journey, prefers to lie on the couch rather than to continue the supervision,and what one often sees is that, if he wants to lie on the couch, it is as if lying onthe couch the rule being to be able to say anything at all, as if, at that verymoment, he had disengaged himself from the fact that he had to answer for whathe says, that he can talk without responsibility. This analyser can believe that fora certain time until the day he discovers, on the couch, that these signifiers thathe thought he did not have to answer in the sense of responsibility, he has toanswer for, and that day perhaps the analyser, for him, the Passe is profiledbecause at that moment, one could say that he is no longer simply the disciple ofLacan or of Freud, but he becomes the disciple of his symptom, namely, that heallows himself to be taught by it and that if for example the analyser in questionwas Bozef, however complicated may be Bozef’s path, he can only discover that inwriting this outline, that this outline in a certain way has already been sketchedout, perhaps even before he learned how to read, on the graphs of a certain DrLacan. One could say at that moment that the analyser no longer is the delegateof the master, because he no longer has to be, he no longer has to be I would saycarried by the knowledge of the master, because he makes himself the carrier,and this is what he delivers to S(Ø). I am going round in circles to approach littleby little, closer and closer, the core of this S(Ø) namely, at the point that we areat, I could say that Bozef, it would be at the end of this journey that he isresponsible for the graphs that he writes and only at that very moment.Now the problem is to effectively account for the nature of this certitude and ofthis enjoyment of the Other that Lacan talks to us about. I am obliged to goquickly because time is effectively passing.73