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After [[Dora]], [[Lacan ]] dealt here with The Ra/man. Invited by J. Wahl, Lacan talked to the students of the College de [[Philosophie]]. In [[order ]] to [[present ]] to [[them]]-in the midst of the crisis of the S.P.P.-his "attempt to renew and analyze more in depth the fundamental [[reality ]] of [[analysis]]." he [[chose ]] this diflicult [[text ]] of [[Freud ]] and linked it with [[Goethe]]'s Dich/ung und Wahrhei/. Indeed, the juxtaposition of these two [[life ]] stories raises the question of [[fiction ]] and [[truth]]. But, beyond this, by emphasizing the most [[particular ]] aspects of the two stories and because of their similarities. the study ends up "[[formalizing]]. that is, universalizing 'the [[individual ]] [[myth ]] of the [[neurotic]].'" Curiously. this fascinating talk, which sheds light on FOlic/ion e/ [[Champ ]] (24), has remained unknown to many Lacanians until J.-A. [[Miller ]] finally produced a readable transcription of it in 1979.

The extremely subtle analysis plays between Freud, [[Heidegger ]] (on [[Speech]]), and Levi-[[Strauss]]. Although the [[structural ]] analysis of myth is essen�tial in this text, [[Levi-Strauss ]] is not mentioned here. Lacan, however. ac�knowledged his debt to him in 1956. For the [[obsessional ]] [[patient]], "the original constellation" is not the [[Oedipal ]] [[triangle ]] but a quartet formed by the [[splitting ]] in two of the [[father ]] or of the [[mother]], a splitting that Lacan analyzes as nar�cissistic. Either the [[male ]] [[subject ]] manages to be recognized in the [[social ]] [[world]], and the [[sexual ]] [[object ]] is then [[split ]] in two (this is deadly [[love]]-[[passion]]) or his "sensitivity" is [[unified ]] around a single object, and then a man appears in social life with whom he has a deadly relation. In spite of the [[ideal ]] picture of the normal man, who would peacefully [[enjoy ]] the fruits of his social [[activity ]] and of his only wife, this [[structure ]] seems to portray the [[masculine ]] condition as opposed to the [[feminine ]] condition illustrated by Dora. Through it, it de�picts the [[tragedy ]] of [[human ]] condition since the fourth element in the quartet is linally [[death]]. What is the way out? It is the reunion. in the person of the father, of the "function of speech" and the "function of love." Such a mes�sage is what Goethe would have aspired to and what Freud would have man�aged to indicate.