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The novelty in this [[seminar]] is the [[return]] of the [[hysteric]], with <i>[[Dora]]</i> and <i>la Belle Bouche erre</i> - the Beautiful Mouth wanders - an allusion to the [[dream]] of the beautiful butcher's wife [[analyzed]] by [[Freud]] and carried on in "The direction of the [[treatment]] and the principles of [[power]]" (<i>[[Écrits: A Selection]]</i>). [[Three]] questions: the rapport between <i>[[jouissance]]</i> and the [[desire]] for unfulfilled desire; the [[hysteric]] who makes man - <i>fait l'[[homme]]</i> or the [[Master]] - she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to [[know]]"; a new conception of the [[cure]] as a "hystericizaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to woman - the only [[discourse]] where [[sexual difference]] comes openly into play. [[Castration]] is "the [[deprivation]] of [[woman]]," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." [[Woman]] is [[absent]] from the field of the [[signifier]].<br>

As to the [[matheme]]s "a fundamental starting relation" functions as a postulate:

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It is the basic discourse from which the other three derive. The dominant [[position]] is occupied by the [[master signifier]], S1, which represents the [[subject]], S, for all other signifiers: S2. In this signifying operation there is a [[surplus]]: <i>[[objet a]]</i>. All attempts at totalisation are doomed to fail. This [[discourse]] masks the [[division]] of the [[subject]], it illustrates the [[structure]] of the [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]]. The master, S1, is the [[agent]] who puts the slave, S2, to [[work]]: the result is a surplus, <i>objet a</i>, that the [[master]] struggles to appropriate.

It is caused by a anticlockwise quarter turn of the previous discourse. The dominant position is occupied by knowledge - <i>savoir</i>. An attempt to [[mastery]] can be traced behind the endeavors to impart neutral knowledge: domination of the other to whom knowledge is transmitted. This [[hegemony]] is [[visible]] in [[modernity]] with [[science]].

It is effected by a clockwise quarter turn of the discourse of the master. It is not simply "that which is uttered by the hysteric," but a certain kind of articulation in which any subject may be inscribed. The [[divided]] subject, S, the [[symptom]], is in the pole position. This discourse points toward knowledge. "The cure involves the structural introduction of the discourse of the hysteric by way of artificial [[conditions]]": the analyst hystericizes the [[analysand]]'s discourse.