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Poe's story is read in an entirely original way: by translating the title by "the diverted leiter" or "the leiter in sufferance."· [[Lacan ]] gives as the [[moral ]] of the fable "that a leiter always arrives at its destination." in spite of its adventures. "The invention of the poet and the rigor of the mathematician." such is his judgment [[about ]] this story whose "plausibility [is) so perfect that one can say e. The [[French ]] is leftre ell sOllffrallce. which means a leiter held up in the course of delivery: ell .wlIffrallce also means in a [[state ]] of [[suffering]].

The Works of [[Jacques Lacan ]] 1.1 that [[truth ]] reveals there its fictional organization." The narration repeats a drama organized around [[three ]] types of [[gaze ]] in two scenes (the king/the queen/ the minister and the police/the minister/Dupin), in which the second [[scene ]] repeats the first one, with a mere [[change ]] in the characters' positions. How�ever, it is a very revealing change. In this detective story, Lacan, [[repeating ]] Dupin, the narrator, and Poe, reinterprets the clues for our [[pleasure]]. But this story interested him because it fit his own research. He discovered in it "the [[master ]] [[words ]] of our drama," the drama of inter�subjectivity where [[subjects ]] are entirely determined by the [[displacement ]] of the [[signifier ]] (here figured by the [[letter]]), independently of "innate gifts, [[social ]] [[experience]], [[character]], and [[gender]]." He asserted both the radical [[autonomy ]] of the signifying [[system ]] and the [[complete ]] subjection of the [[subject ]] to the trajec�tory of the signifier. On the basis of the sessions of Semina ire J/ (27), he wrote a first version of this [[text]], published in 1956 in La [[Psychanalyse]]. Then, revising its organization and its [[mathematical ]] part, he wrote a second version in 1966, which he put at the beginning of [[Ecrits ]] (63). In this text, he was [[looking ]] for a [[logic ]] of [[intersubjectivity]]. For that [[purpose]], he clarified the [[Schema ]] L. (27), and, most importantly, he elaborated, on the basis of the [[game ]] of odds and evens [[present ]] in Poe's story, a pure [[combinatory ]] based on cybernetics. Cybernetics fascinated him more and more. Ultimately, the sub�ject is only the abstract subject of this combinatory, indeed its product. In 1964 (58) Lacan said that he "had substituted the simplest succession to the randomness of a binary alternation." Depending on the perspective, the letter is the [[message]], the simplest element of [[writing ]] (the alphabet), the [[symbol ]] of a pact, an "immense [[female ]] [[body]]," the [[phallus ]] in its function of [[desire ]] and [[power]], or litter. This leads us to L'[[Instance ]] de la /ellre (35) or to La Subver�sion du [[sujet ]] (46), and also to the [[future ]] [[objet ]] a, the [[cause ]] of desire (52).