Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

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Seminar 8: Wednesday 8 March 1977What one writes..., I say ‘one’, because – anyone at all can write – I say‘one’ because it embarrasses me to say ‘I’. It is not without reason that itembarrasses me. Why should the ‘I’ be produced on this particularoccasion? Therefore it happens that I said and by that fact it can be found inwriting, I said that there is no metalanguage, namely, that one cannot talkabout language.As it happens I reread something which is in Scilicet IV that I called,anyway that I entitled, that is how, it is something like that that carries yourbrand, anyway that I entitled L’étourdit, and in L’étourdit, I noticed, Irecognised something, in L’étourdit, this metalanguage, I would say that Ialmost brought it to birth. Naturally that would mark an epoch. It wouldmark an epoch, but there is no epoch because there is no change. Thisalmost that I added to my sentence, this almost underlines that it neverhappened. It is a semblance of metalanguage and since I make use in thetext, I make use of this way of writing, s’embler, s’emblant tometalanguage. Making a reflective verb of this s’embler, detaches it fromthis coming to fruition which being is, and as I write, il parest, parest meansa s’emblant of being. There you are.And then, in this connection, I notice that it was for a preface that I openedthis writing, for a preface that I had to write for an Italian edition that I hadpromised, it is not sure that I will do it, it is not sure that I will do it becauseit annoys me, but I noticed in this connection, I consulted someone who isItalian for whom this tongue, that I understand nothing about, is hismaternal tongue, I consulted someone who pointed out to me that there issomething that resembles this s’embler, which resembles this s’embler, butwhich is not, which is not easy to introduce with the deformation in the wayof writing that I give it. In short, it is not easy to transcribe, that is why Iproposed that my preface should not be translated, after all, this all the more90
that there is no kind of inconvenience in translating anything whatsoever, inparticular, not the preface.Like every preface, I would be inclined, since this is usually what happensin prefaces, I would be inclined to approve myself, even to applaud myself;this is what is usually done. It is a comedy. It is of the order of comedy andthat made me, that induced me..., that pushed me towards Dante. Thiscomedy is divine, of course, but that only means one thing, which is that itis farcical. I speak about the farcical in L’étourdit, I don’t know at whatpage I speak about it but I do speak about it. That means that one can befarcical about this supposedly divine work. There is not the slightest divinework, unless one wants to identify it to what I call the Real. But I want tospecify this notion that I have of the Real.I would like it to become more widespread. There is an aspect (face) – it isunheard of that one should dare to advance terms like that – there is anaspect by which this Real is distinguished from what is, to say the word,knotted to it. Here it is necessary to specify certain things. If one can talkabout aspect, it must take on its weight, I mean that it should have a sense.It is quite clear that it is inasmuch as this notion of the Real that I amadvancing, is something consistent that I can put it forward.And there I would like to make a remark, which is that the rings of string, asI called them, in which I made consist this triad of the Real, of theImaginary and of the Symbolic, to which I was pushed, not by just anyone,by the hysterics, so that that I started from the same material as Freud, sinceit is in order to say something coherent about hysterics that Freud built upthe whole of his technique, which is a technique, namely, something that onthis particular occasion is very fragile.I would like all the same to point out the following, which is that the ringsof string on this particular occasion do not hold up. Something more isneeded – this is what was, I should say, suggested to me the other day bySoury’s lecture; Soury gives lectures on Thursday evening, I don’t see why I91
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