Time-line : This paper was written in March 1945 and published in a special issue, entitled 1940-1944, of Les Cahiers d’Art (1945): p32-42

It was sent to me in an email.

The translator may be S. Gross or S. Seth. Now available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan

Time-line : This paper was written in March 1945 and published in a special issue, entitled 1940-1944, of Les Cahiers d’Art (1945): p32-42

This was one of two papers by Lacan published in Cahiers d’art in the mid-’40s. The other was Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty [see this site /4 Jacques Lacan], published in the Cahiers in 1945.

In French :

« Le nombre treize et la forme logique de la suspicion » paru dans Cahiers d’art, 1946, pp. 389-393.

– As published by École Lacanienne – Pas Tout Lacan Available http://ecole-lacanienne.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1946-00-00.pdf

– p85 – 100 of Autres Écrits : 2001 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (20010101) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan

OR

Available with the French & 2 English translation (Simon Gros & Samya Seth) at Richard G. Klein’s site, www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (118 AUTRES ÉCRITS:/ Le nombre treize et la forme logique de la suspicion)

Text at the beginning:

Plus inaccessible à nos yeux, faits pour les signes du changeur…

(Discours sur la causalité psychique.)

…more invisible to our eyes (made, as they are, for the signs of the money changer). “Presentation on Psychic Causality”* *

**The title of this essay in Écrits is ‘Propos sur la causalité psychique’, see Écrits. This was also the title of his presentation on 28th September 1946 at the Bonneval Conference (“Le problème de la psychogénèse des névroses et des psychoses ”)

See, Presentation on Psychical Causality : 28th September 1946 (Bonneval Hospital, Paris ) : Jacques Lacan, at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19460928) for further details.

Footnote to section ‘The problem of the twelve pieces’ :

p2 Simon Gros’ translation : The study developed here situates itself within the initial formal analyses of a collective logic, to which it was already referred in a text published in the previous number of the ‘Cahiers D’Art’, under the title of ‘Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty’. [See ** below]

The form developed here, although it compares succession, is not of the order of logical time and situates itself as being prior to it in our development. It is part of our exemplary approaches to the conception of logical forms in which the relations of the individual to the collection must be defined, before a class is constituted, that is, before the individual is specified.

This conception is developed within a logic of the subject which our other study allows us to distinctively discern, given that, at the end of the text, we have even tried to formulate the subjective syllogism through which the subject of existence assimilates himself to the essence, which is, for us, radically cultural, to which one applies the term humanity.

**See Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty – A New Sophism : March 1945 : Jacques Lacan at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19450301) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan)