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* A geometry implies the [[heterogeneity ]] of locus, namely that there is a locus of the [[Other]]. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most [[recent ]] [[development ]] in [[topology ]] allow us to posit?* A trick... sufficient for us to discern in this tale, on the contrary, so perfect a verisimilitude that it may be said that [[truth ]] here reveals its fictive arrangement.* And yet, if [[language ]] were not addressed to an Other, it could not be [[understood ]] thanks to an other in [[psychoanalysis]].* As is known, it is in the realm of [[experience ]] inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what [[imaginary ]] lines the [[human ]] organism, in the most intimate recesses of its [[being]], manifests its [[capture ]] in a [[symbolic ]] [[dimension]].* Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic [[necessity ]] more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception [[arbitrary]].* But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose [[particularity ]] in our [[work ]] would remain the essential [[thing ]] for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.* For a purloined [[letter ]] to [[exist]], we may ask, to whom does a letter belong? We stressed a [[moment ]] ago the oddity implicit in returning a letter to him who had but recently given wing to its burning pledge.* For the [[signifier ]] is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by [[nature ]] [[symbol ]] only of an [[absence]].* If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of [[sexuality]], it is not by aiming at [[them ]] in their own [[reality]], not in [[biological ]] experience.* In other [[words]], the man who is [[born ]] into [[existence ]] deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his [[birth]].* [[Love ]] letter or conspiratorial letter, letter of [[betrayal ]] or letter of mission, letter of summons or letter of distress, we are assured of but one thing: the Queen muse not bring it to the [[knowledge ]] of her lord and [[master]].* [[Obsessional ]] does not necessarily mean [[sexual ]] [[obsession]], not even obsession for this, or for that in [[particular]]; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a [[mechanism]], in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.* Our inquiry has led us to the point of recognizing that the [[repetition ]] automatism (Wiederholangszwang) finds its basis in what we have called the [[insistence ]] of the signifying [[chain]].* Psychoanalysis announces that you are no longer the center of yourself, since there is [[another ]] [[subject ]] within you, the [[Unconscious]]. It was, at first, not well-accepted news.* Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient [[instrument]], and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a [[purpose ]] for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.* Since [[Freud]], the center of man is not where we [[thought ]] it was; one has to go on from there.* [[Symptoms]], those you believe you recognize, seem to you [[irrational ]] because you take them in an isolated manner, and you [[want ]] to [[interpret ]] them directly.* The knowledge that there is a part of the [[psychic ]] functions that are out of [[conscious ]] reach, we did not [[need ]] to wait for Freud to [[know ]] this!* The [[Mirror ]] [[Stage ]] as formative in the function of the I as revealed in [[psychoanalytic ]] experience.* The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en [[scene ]] would be possible.* We emphasize that such a [[form ]] of [[communication ]] is not [[absent ]] in man, however evanescent a [[naturally ]] given [[object ]] may be for him, [[split ]] as it is in its submission to [[symbols]].* We have elaborated that [[notion ]] itself as a correlate of the [[ex-sistence ]] (or: eccentric [[place]]) in which we must necessarily locate the [[subject of the unconscious ]] if we are to take Freud's discovery seriously.* We realize, of course, the importance of these imaginary impregnations (Pragung) in those partializations of [[the symbolic ]] alternative which give the symbolic chain its [[appearance]].

* What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the [[universe]]?* Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other [[objects]], it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.* With [[psychology]], even when seen as a [[science]], everyone thought they had the insider's track. Now, with psychoanalysis, we have the [[feeling ]] of having lost that privilege; that the [[analyst ]] could be capable of [[seeing ]] something quite [[secret ]] in what appears to you to be quite clear.

* Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that [[people ]] with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.