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<i>[[Méconnaissance]]</i> is a French word which I am obliged to use because there is no equivalent in [[English]]. <i>[[Méconnaissance]]</i> precisely implies the [[subject]] in its [[meaning]]; and I was also advised that it is not so easy to talk about the "[[subject]]" before an [[English]]-speaking audience. <i>[[Méconnaissance]]</i> is not to <i>méconnaitre</i> my [[subjectivity]]. What exactly is in question is the status of the problem of the [[structure]].
When I began to teach something about [[Psychoanalysis ]] I lost some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of [[Freud]], and particularly those books which are properly about the [[unconscious]], you can be absolutely sure&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;-- it is not a probability but a certitude&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;-- to fall on a page where it is not only a question of words&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;[[word]]s -- naturally in a book there are always words many printed words&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;-- but words [[word]]s which are the [[object ]] through which one seeks for a way to handle the [[unconscious]]. Not even the meaning of the words[[word]]s, but words [[word]]s in their flesh, in their [[material ]] aspect. A great part of the speculations of [[Freud ]] is about punning [[pun]]ning in a [[dream ]] or [[lapsus]], or what in French we call <i>calembour, homonymie</i>, or still the division of a word into many parts with each part taking on a new meaning after it is broken down. It is curious to note, even if in this case it is not absolutely proven, that words are the only [[material ]] of the [[unconscious]]. It is not proven but it is probable (and in any case I have never said that the [[unconscious ]] was an assemblage of words[[word]]s, but that the [[unconscious ]] is precisely structured[[structure]]d). I don't think there is such an [[English ]] word but it is necessary to have this term, as we are talking about [[structure ]] and the [[unconscious is structured as a language]]. What does that mean?
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