Seminar XXIV Final Sessions 1 - Lacan in Ireland

means that the tongue fails, that, in short, it is a farcical tongue? The Frenchtongue is no less farcical than the others, it is uniquely because we have ataste for it, have practiced it, that we consider it as superior. It has nothingsuperior about it in any way whatsoever. It is exactly like Algonquin orCoyote (sic), it is no better. If it were worth more, one might say of it whatDante enunciates somewhere, he enunciates this in something he wrote inLatin and he calls it Nomina sunt consequentia rerum.The consequence, consequence meaning on this particular occasion what?It can only mean the real consequence, but there is no real consequence,since the Real, as I symbolised it by the Borromean knot, the Real vanishesinto a dust cloud of tori because, of course, these two tori here inside theother are unknotted. They are unknotted and this means that the Real, atleast in the way that we believe we can represent it, the Real is only linkedby a structure, if we pose that structure, means nothing but the Borromeanknot. The Real is in short defined as being incoherent insofar as it isprecisely structure.All of this does nothing more than specify the conception that someone,who happens on this particular occasion to be me, has of the Real. The Realdoes not constitute a universe, except by being knotted to two otherfunctions. That is not reassuring, it is not reassuring because one of thesefunctions is the living body.94