Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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eason is said to be purloined, while what I enunciate, in re-establishingPoe’s text, The purloined letter, namely, the letter that does not arrive, theletter whose circuit is extended. On this I made a certain number of remarksthat you will find in my text, a text which is at the start of what is called myEcrits. I show how striking it is to see that the fact of being in short in astate of dependency on this letter feminizes a personage who – one couldput this otherwise – is not precisely lacking in pluck, were it only from thefact of filching the letter which the Queen knows that he possesses and he isfeminised for all that, and not because of the trials he endures in hiding itfrom the Other, who is the King, this scandalous letter. He says to himself:the Other does not know. But this is simply equivalent to the fact that heholds the letter. He for his part knows, hence the extrapolation that AlainDidier Weill makes, an extrapolation which depends on the fact of holdingthe letter. That he hides it from the Other, does not ensure that the Kingknows anything at all about it.Alain Didier Weill pursues: the way in which the story of the Queen of thestory is different to Bozef depends on the fact that, if the Queen does indeedcarry out the trials opened with the Minister of these 4 moments ofknowledge that he himself has described and that he finds the trace of in Poeby the ascendency that the Minister has gained at the expense of theknowledge that the abductor has, of the knowledge that the victim has of itsabductor and of which the four moments are according to him: the Ministerknows that the Queen knows that the Minister knows that she knows. It istrue that this can be picked out, and that following on this, Alain DidierWeill, in his letter, points out to me that the Queen does not for all thatexperience this objective dispossession by the Minister as the subjectivedispossession at which Bozef arrives at the level that he enunciated for you,the last time, as B3-R3. It is true that here there is a deficiency in theenunciation that gave us at the last session. But, in this regard. I disagree.Bozef, even though he has had a name bestowed on him – and this indeed isthe flaw in which I surprise– Bozef even though he has been given a name,is not something which deserves to be named, I mean that it is notsomething which is like something which, let us say, is seen. It is not84
nameable. Bozef is, I would say, the incarnation of Absolute Knowledge,and what Alain Didier Weill extrapolates, completely in the margins ofPoe’s tale, is, the journeying that starts from this hypothesis, namely, thatBozef is the incarnation of what I will specify soon, of what is meant byAbsolute Knowledge, shows the journeying starting from this hypothesisthat he is himself, Bozef, this incarnation, shows the journeying of a truthwhich in fact is nowhere made obvious. At no moment, does the Ministerwho has kept this letter in short as a pledge of the good will of the Queen, atno moment has the Minister even the idea of communicating this letter, tothe King for example, who is moreover the only one who would findhimself in the position of understanding its consequences.The truth, one might say, ‘demands’ to be said. It has no voice, to‘demand’, to be said, since in short it can happen, as is said – and thisindeed is what is extraordinary about language – it can happen – how hasFrench which must be considered as an individual, has it put this form intouse? – it can happen, I would say according to it, the concrete French that isat stake, it can happen, according to it, that no one says it, not even Bozef;and this indeed is what in fact happens, I say, namely, that this mythicalBozef, since he is not in Poe’s tale, says absolutely nothing. AbsoluteKnowledge, I would say, does not speak at any price. It is silent if it wishesto be silent. What I called Absolute Knowledge on this particular occasion,is the following: it is simply that there is knowledge somewhere, not justanywhere at all, in the Real, and this thanks to the apparent existence of aspecies for which – as I said – there is no sexual relationship. It is a purelyaccidental existence, but on which one reasons starting from the fact, as Imight say, starting from the fact that it is capable of enunciating something,about appearance of course since I underline apparent existence. Theorthography that I give to the name paraître that I write parêtre, it is onlyabout the parêtre that we have to know, being on this occasion only beingone part of parl’être, namely, of what is made up uniquely of what speaks.What is meant by Knowledge as such? It is Knowledge in so far as it is inthe Real. This Real is a notion that I elaborated by having put it into the85
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