Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

Alain Didier Weill, for his part, it is not that he substitutes himself, heidentifies himself to Bozef. He feels himself, he feels himself in the Passe,it is rather curious that he could, in a way in this writing, find, as I mightsay, the call that answered for me, made me answer by the Passe.The Real that is at stake, is the knot in its entirety. Since we are speakingabout the Symbolic, it must be situated in the Real. There is, for this knot, acord. The cord is also corps-de (body-of). This corps-de, is parasited on bythe signifier; for the signifier though it forms part of the Real, it is indeedthere that I am right to situate the Symbolic, one must think of thefollowing, which is that we might well have dealings with this corps-de onlyin the dark. How could we recognise, in the dark, that it is a Borromeanknot? That is what is at stake in the Passe. ‘I know that he knows’, what canthat mean except to objectify the unconscious, except for the fact that theobjectification of the unconscious necessitates a redoubling, namely, that ‘Iknow that he knows that I know that he knows’. It is on this condition alonethat analysis holds onto its status. This is what creates an obstacle to thissomething which, by limiting itself to ‘I know that he knows’, opens thedoor to occultism and telepathy. It is because of not having sufficientlygrasped, sufficiently well grasped the status of anti-knowledge, namely, ofthe anti-unconscious, in other words of this pole, of this pole whichconsciousness is, that Freud allowed himself from time to time to be tickledby what have since been called ‘psy’ phenomena, namely, that he allowedhimself to slip quite gently into delusion, in connection with the fact thatJones gave him his visiting card immediately after a patient had casuallymentioned Jones’ name.The Passe that is at stake, I only envisaged in a tentative way, as somethingwhich means nothing but a ‘recognising one another’, if I can expressmyself in that way, on condition that we insert into it an ‘a-v’ after the firstletter ‘recognising one another between knowledge (se reconnaître entres(av)oir)’. Are there tongues that are an obstacle to the recognition of theunconscious? This is something that was suggested to me as a question bythe fact that this ‘c’est toi’, in which would have Bozef communicating with88