Session 8 of Seminar XXI, p1-15 in Cormac Gallagher’s translation
In English
Translated by Cormac Gallagher from unedited tapes published at www.LacaninIreland.com /translation/seminars as Les Non Dupes Errent Part 2
In French
-An image of the stenographer’s typed manuscript
École lacanienne de psychanalyse – E. L. P. – (http://ecole-lacanienne.net ) / Lacan-Bibliothèque
/at http://ecole-lacanienne.net/bibliolacan/stenotypies-version-j-l-et-non-j-l/
And here https://ecole-lacanienne.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1974.02.19.pdf
Introduction to Lacan-Bibliothèque, Seminars – Jacques Lacan – J.L. and not J.L. versions (Internet translation)
The École lacanienne de psychanalyse’s library makes all of Jacques Lacan’s seminars available to the Internet public, in the basic form of available stenotypes. A stenographer assisted Jacques Lacan in each of his seminar sessions, from 1953 to 1980. At the end of each session, she typed up the stenotype tapes, in duplicate or triplicate, using a process that had been famous for a century: carbon paper.
For most of the seventies, J.L. versions were supplemented by others which, whatever their merits, were not of the same quality. While they sometimes correct errors, it is never out of the question for them to add others of their own, which are all the more difficult to perceive since, unlike J.L., their texts often have a typographical quality that is not matched by an equal critical effort.
It goes without saying that all these documents are in image format (.pdf).
-Unedited transcription directly from recordings at http://staferla.free.fr /Séminaire 21 : Non-dupes …
Introduction
Ce document de travail a pour sources principales :
– Les non-dupes errent, fichiers mp3 des séances, sur le site de Patrick Valas.
– Les non-dupes errent, sur le site Espaces Lacan.
– Les non-dupes errent, versio Nicole Sels, au format « pdf » sur le site de l’E.L.P.
Le texte de ce séminaire nécessite l’installation de la police de caractères spécifique, dite « Lacan », disponible ici :
http://fr.ffonts.net/Lacan.font.download (placer le fichier Lacan.ttf dans le répertoire c:windowsfonts)
Les références bibliographiques privilégient les éditions les plus récentes. Les schémas sont refaits.
N.B. Ce qui s’inscrit entre crochets droits [ ] n’est pas de Jacques Lacan.
English translation using the internet
The main sources for this working paper are:
– Les non-dupes errent, mp3 files of the sessions, on Patrick Valas’ website.
– Les non-dupes errent, on the Espaces Lacan website.
– Les non-dupes errent, Nicole Sels version, in PDF format on the E.L.P. website.
The text of this seminar requires installation of the special “Lacan” font, available here:
http://fr.ffonts.net/Lacan.font.download (place the Lacan.ttf file in the c:windowsfonts directory)
Bibliographical references are based on the most recent editions. Diagrams have been redrawn.
N.B. What’s in right square brackets [ ] is not by Jacques Lacan.
Information on Seminar 19th February 1974 & its Mathemes
See 21 Les non-dupes errent 1973-1974 at https://www.lutecium.org/mathemes/node551.html
Mathemes
Jacques Lacan’s Mathemes
Here is the computer version of a Mathematics Thesaurus taken from written texts and from Dr. Lacan. It covers all the texts written by Lacan and all the seminars he held in 1953 at 1979. Accompanying this thesaurus, there is a search tool allowing to visualize the citations comprising one or more mathemes, these appearing in chronological order.
Go to 21.8 Alors cher RONDEPIERRE …, 19 février 1974 at https://www.lutecium.org/mathemes/node559.html
A Mathematics Thesaurus for ‘19th February 1974 – translated via the internet and reproduced without the links given on the site
Elements established from the text
Figure 21.8.1: Necessary, contingent, impossible, possible
Reality is three.
Logic is the knowledge of reality.
The subject is that which is the cause.
Logic is a form of knowledge.
Death only exists where there is sexual reproduction.
Masochism is fake, it is knowledge.
The hole in the real is where there is no sexual intercourse.
One connotes jouissance.
A logical, inscribable saying is knowledge.
In the real, there is a hole.
The necessary is that which never ceases to be written.
To know everything, there must be invention.
Related Texts
Seminar XXI Les non-dupes errant (1973-1974) : from 13th November 1973 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19731113 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
Citations
19th February 1974 – Session 8
P9 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation
-in Quotes towards ‘Trauma, Les traumatismes dans la cure analytique’ : 9th April 2013 : Christiane Alberti & Marie-Hélène Brousse, see this site / f) Trauma (1 A Lacanian Clinic/ C Cartel or group work ) or Index of Authors’ Texts
p9 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation (Part 2) : …He fancies that he does not know! What a funny business… But we all know, because all of us invent something to fill up the hole in the Real. Where there is no sexual relationship this gives a ‘troumatisme’. One invents. Naturally one invents what one can.
-Why is trauma urgent? : 4th February 2019 : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors’ A-Z (Evans) or /1 A Lacanian Clinic /C Cartel or group work/ f) Trauma
JE writes: Where there is no invention, the breach is not filled. Lacan called this a ‘troumatisme’ (Seminar XXI : 19th February 1974)[vii]
vii p9 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : …He fancies that he does not know! What a funny business… But we all know, because all of us invent something to fill up the hole in the Real. Where there is no sexual relationship this gives a ‘troumatisme’. One invents. Naturally one invents what one can.
p12 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, Draft 2,
– The Unconscious and the Speaking Body : Paris : 17th April 2014 : Jacques-Alain Miller, see this site /5Authors A-Z (Miller or Index of Authors’ texts)
Miller, An interpretation is an act of saying that targets the speaking body and does so in order to produce an event, in order to provoke a gut-reaction, said Lacan[35]. This is something that can’t be anticipated, but which is verified retroactively, for the jouissance-effect is incalculable. All that analysis can do is to accord to the pulsation of the speaking body in order to insinuate itself into the symptom. When one analyses the unconscious, the meaning of interpretation is the truth. When one analyses the speaking body, the meaning of interpretation is jouissance. This displacement from truth to jouissance sets the measure of what analytic practice is becoming in the era of the parlêtre.
35 Lacan, J., Lesson of 19 February 1974, Le séminaire XXI, Les non-dupes errent, 1973-1974, unpublished.
p12 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation, Draft 2, Checked against Staferla page 58 and some alterations made, JE,
So then, so then. What is involved in knowledge?
Naturally, I have not managed at this time, namely, 1.20, or something like that… 24, I have not managed at this hour, to tell you even a quarter of what I should get into your guts, because that is the function of the saying. If I do not say it to you it is not enough for me to write it, but I am all the same going to give you a little sample of what can be written, because without this reflection on writing, without what ensures that the saying comes to be written, there is no way for me to make you sense the dimension in which unconscious knowledge subsists. And what you must do as a supplementary step, is to notice that if (what) I am making you aware by telling you that the unconscious does not discover anything… because there is nothing to discover, there is nothing to discover in the Real, since here there is a hole. …If the unconscious, here, invents, it is all the more precious for you to notice that in logic it is the same thing, namely, that if Aristotle had not invented it, the first clearing of the way, namely, to make the saying go into this grinder of being, thanks to which he makes syllogisms – naturally syllogisms were made before him, simply people did not know that they were syllogisms. In order to notice it, it must be invented: to see where the hole is, the edge of the Real must be seen.
– Treating Shell Shock – re-conceptualising what worked : 12th March 2021 (Zoom Intercartel Meeting) : Julia Evans, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Evans)
The cartel’s discussant, René Raggenbass, suggested that this passage, p19 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation as above, puts structure around how physicians in the First World War are constructing their treatments.