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Nowhere else did [[Lacan ]] try as hard to [[communicate ]] to [[analysts ]] coming from different perspectives what constitutes the [[ethics]], the [[concepts]], and the inter�rogations of his [[practice]]. He made an effort to situate himself in the [[global ]] field of [[psychoanalytic ]] [[thinking ]] (there was even a [[bibliography]]), he revealed his [[desire ]] for pedagogical clarity, mentioning [[concrete ]] problems and numer�ous examples. Paradoxically, this address, which was meant for a limited [[public ]] (the audience of the International Colloquium in Royaumont, orga�nized by the [[S.F.P]].) seems to me to be a [[good ]] introduction (for the general public) to his thinking of the [[time]]. The [[dream ]] of the Beautiful Butcher's Wife ([[Freud]]) allows him to define [[hysterical ]] desire as the [[model ]] of [[human ]] desire (the [[subject]]'s desire is the desire of the [[Other]]), and desire as "[[metonymy ]] of the [[lack]]-to-be" whose dream would be [[metaphor]]. Elsewhere, relatively simple formulations discuss the [[unconscious ]] as a [[structure ]] of [[signifiers ]] and ana�lyze [[fantasy ]] or primary [[identification]], here based on the [[mother]]'s [[Demand]]. The [[text ]] is violently polemical: [[analytic ]] [[literature ]] is assimilated to "the pile of dung from the Augean stables" in front of which [[Leonardo]]'s [[St John ]] stands with his finger raised. Mistakes are always attributed to [[others ]] while the [[author ]] claims "to hear and [[understand]]" and not "to auscultate": "My [[listening ]] is one of [[understanding ]] [entendement]." The suggested solutions

are then discussed, whether it is a matter of [[transference]], or [[interpretation]], or of the ultimate rule: "One must take desire literal/yo " However, many of the problems that are raised are important ones: the fact that Freud did not nec�essarily "[[cure]]" his [[patients ]] while making "the discoveries on which we live"; the [[patient]]'s [[acting-out]], linked to the [[analyst]]'s passage a /' [[acte]]; the analyst's desire producing in the subject an effect in which "that which is not [[forbidden ]] can become mandatory"; the [[money ]] given in [[exchange ]] for a "[[nothing]]" that the analyst does not even give. Ultimately, who is the analyst? He is the one who must "pay with [[words]]," "pay with his person" and "with that which is essential in his most intimate judgment, in [[order ]] to intervene in an [[action ]] that goes to the heart of [[being]]. "