Talk:Le temps logique

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1945 (17 pp.)-LE TEMPS LOGIQUE ET L'ASSERTION DE CERTITUDE ANnCIPEE. UN NOUVEAU SOPHISME. (LOGICAL TIME AND THE PREMATURE ASSERTION OF CERTAINTY. A NEW SOPHISM) A game is the basis of a subjective and intersubjective logic. This game leaves no one indifferent: it involves three prisoners and five disks, three white and two black ones. A director puts a disk on each prisoner's back (in fact, the three disks are white). The first prisol')er who goes through the door, gives the correct answer, and justifies his choice (black/white) "based on logical motives and not on probabilities" wins a prize-his freedom.

Game theory, which intends to formalize human action in terms of pufC strategy, had made it to Paris. It became part of the Lacanian theoretical landscape as of this article published in Calliers d' Art and up to the appeal to cybernetics, in 1954, during the first seminar at Sainte-Anne (25). With the model of game theory, the only question that remains is the question of sub�jective time organized into three stages: "the instant of the gaze," "the period of understanding," and "the moment to conclude." This model runs through all of Lacan's works, in order to define analytic experience and technique (length of the sessions, moments and modes of interventions, end of the analysis, etc.). It very often recurs among disciples as a reference scheme, although neither the other aspects of a case nor the other motives, real and varied, for the chosen technique are consistently taken into account. Are we dealing with logic or with sophistry? The article ends with an enlightening application of the formula to the assertion, "I am a man," in order to give rise to the fundamental opposition, man/nonman. Here is matter for reflec�tion on the "sophism" that Lacan himself claims to have invented-and for reading other texts, especially those devoted to castration, in light of this one.