Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

namely, not a relation between these terms which is spherical, but a relationthat I could call toric. Suppose that...It seemed to me that the mode in which – but I only got it last night – themode in which Pierre Soury sent me the knot, the Borromean knot of thefour tetrahedrons is just as toric. This simply to explain to you that itworried me to know whether, the application of the Borromean knot to aspace spherically representable also generated a toric space and this in orderto explain to you that in short, since I was completely entangled in the midstof all of that, it was to Alain Didier Weill that I made a call, a call tosubstitute himself for me in this enunciation, because I had expected greatpromise on why he had put forward the name of Bozef. This name of Bozefthat he brings in like an intruder into The purloined letter, this name ofBozef, I challenged him about this name Bozef and this famous ‘I know thathe knows’ – that he, the King knows – ‘because I had informed him of it’.Informed of what, this is what is not said.In principle Alain Didier Weill, by introducing the Bozef into the story ofThe purloined letter, does not formally know what he is putting forward.Witness the question that I posed him and which he answered. Heanswered: if Bozef could be substituted for a character in Poe’s story, itcould only be the Queen, eventually the minister when he is – as Iunderlined – in a feminised position. It is a fact that the fact of introducinghimself in the way that you know, by filching the letter which for that83