Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

accentuated by him is the search for this experience of lack in a pure state. Finallyyou see that what is proper to this response, the ‘It’s you’, as I define it at thatmoment, that the proper of this response is that it is a metaphor in a pure state.If you wish, if the subject had responded: ‘It’s you’ to the Other who would haveasked him: ‘So then yes or no is it me?’ and that then he would have answered,his word, his enunciation would have been the same but would not have had thiseffect of a message of S(Ø) by situating itself, I would say, clearly metonymically,like this aphasic described by Jakobson who by metaphorical aphasia, could notenunciate the adverb ‘no’ except if one said to him: ‘Say no’ then he can respond:‘No, since you say that I can’t say it.....’ demonstrating, if you wish, by that, thatthe word itself, if it has fallen from its locus of enunciating, falls itself as a simplemetonymical remainder and loses its value of metaphorical message, as long asyou see that – I am coming back to it, this S(Ø) only has sense when articulated atits locus of emission.Good, since it’s late, I am going to end with the problem of the Passe skippingover a certain number of things.Let us take up again our story of Bozef. Can we say that Bozef, as things havehappened here, has Passed the Passe, namely, we see that Bozef has arrived bydelivering his message ‘It’s you’, corresponds to what I have located, namely, hasmanaged to do without an intermediary, one is no longer 2, one is only 1, toaddress a locus. Bozef, therefore has got to the point, the topological enunciatingpoint articulated to his enunciated message. But Bozef being this point, is he forall that, if he is, as one might say ‘passant’, is he for all that capable of testifying,of realising that he is in the Passe from which he speaks? Is he capable of it? Theking himself who is supposed to be R4, in the position of the analyst, is for his partcapable of recognising the locus from where Bozef speaks. He hears him. But theking – it is not by chance that the king who is the analyst – the king is not the juryd’agrément. I come back to my question: if the whole value of the message ofS(Ø) is that it should be emitted at a certain locus, how can this locus betransmitted get to the jury? Because, in S(Ø), Bozef can sustain what he’s saying,but in the name of a truth that he finds himself experiencing but of which heknows nothing: he knows nothing about this locus. In other words: if Bozef is in77