Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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At S(O) a contradictory phenomenon takes place, which is that of a communion –the word is Lacan’s in The formations of the unconscious, you will find it – is thatof a communion coinciding with a separation between the subject and the Other.The paradox is to comprehend why it is at the moment of the dissolution of thetransference, that a certainty may be borne in the subject, and perhaps uniquelyat that very moment. For that I am obliged to make a rapid return back to what isthe point that we were at at B3-R3, the point of désêtre.At that point I would say – I am obliged because to comprehend what is thenature of the emergence of the subject in a pure state – at B3-R3, rapidly, thesubject was in a position where the primary repression had disappeared, fixed bythe look of the Real. What is going to allow the subject to unfix himself –remember moreover, that on the subject of fixation, Freud articulates it toprimary repression – what is going to allow the subject to unfix himself, what isgoing to allow the Other which is in the Real to reintegrate his symbolic site? It isthere moreover that the art of the analyst must make itself heard. An example:an analyser in this position, where for him the knowledge of the Other wandersaround like that in the Real, puts pressure on his analyst to see the way in whichthe analyst is going to manifest himself, from where he speaks, one daytelephones him to press for a rendezvous to see the reaction, the analystresponds: ‘If it were necessary, we would see one another’. The message, thesignified, has nothing very original about it, nevertheless this message has theeffect of a radical interpretation for the analyser, the effect being of managing toreconvey to the Other in his symbolic locus, quite simply because of the syntacticarticulation, which ensured that his analyst by finding the formula ‘If it werenecessary’, by the introduction of the ‘it’, subjecting himself as analyser to thedominance, to the predominance of the signifier.In the point B3-R3 where the subject has no recourse, he has no recourse ‘tocomprehend this notion of being without recourse’, evokes the night terrors ofthe child. Why effectively in the dark is the child in this position? I would sayprecisely that in the dark what happens for the child is that he does not have acorner to go to where he is not under the look of the Other; because in the darkthere is no little corner. And it is precisely in answer to the fact that under the74
look of the Real, there is not, for the subject, at B3-R3 any recourse to any cornerwhatsoever, that the recourse summoned by the signifier of the Name of theFather is going to be to create a little nook, namely, a nook that is going towithdraw him from the Other, but which is also going to withdraw him fromhimself by constituting him as not knowing, since it is precisely this corner itself,the corner in which he has the most of himself, the most symbolic of himself thatis going to be evaporated. I would say that at that moment – scripture says to us‘let there be light’ – what is at stake at that moment is ‘let there be a hole’, this isan expression of Lacan’s. And this is perhaps what happened in the syntacticalformula that I evoked earlier. Having said this, how is it that the subject – I amturning all the time around that as you can see – who has lost speech, is going torediscover it and is going to be able to say ‘It’s you’? Well then I would say due tothe intervention of the signifier of the Name of the Father, which recreated theprimal repression, which made S 2 disappear and restored the o-object in its place,because of the operation of this signifier of the Name of the Father, the subjectreaches a different point of view, a point of view where he does not know theequivalence between the knowledge of the Other and the key which is lacking inhim. He discovers that it is not because the Other recognises that he is lacking,that there is not in him the key, that he lacks the essential key of his being, it isnot because the Other recognises that that he knows it. I would even say thatwhen he discovers that the Other can recognise the existence of this key while notknowing it, namely, not being able to restore it to him, if, in a first moment hemay fall into despair, in truth this is going to reintroduce him to hope, because ifthe Other is in the position of recognising what he does not know, that introducesthe dimension of the fact that the Other himself has lost this same key, that heknows well what lack is involved, and the hope that is opened up then, is to makepresent the absence of this lost uninscribable thing, and the hope, is precisely thatthe uninscribable can cease not to be written. And that is what is delivered atS(Ø).The unlikely paradox on which one ends up, as one might say, is how a signifier,this signifier of S(Ø), can assume this unthinkable contradiction of being at oncewhat maintains open the gap of what does not cease to be written – when youread, when you hear music that overwhelms you or a poem that overwhelms you,75
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