80 .JACQUESLACAN I Introduction to the Names-of-the-FatherSeminar b) All candidates in training analysis with Dr. Lacan are asked to inform the Training Committee whether or not they wish to continue training, with the understanding that a further period of training ahalysis with an analyst ac- ceptable to the Training Committee will be required. This notification should be completed by December 31, 1963. c) The Training Committee, in consultation with the Advisory Commit- tee, will interview those candidates who have expressed their wish to continue I training, in order to determine their suitability. These interviews should be completed by March 31,196+.In all these matters, the Advisory Committee will offer advice both in respect to candidates' suitability and also on the choice of a second training analyst. 7. The Central Executive has invited the Advisory Committee as currently intend to engage in anything in the order of a theatrical ploy. I constituted to continue to act on its behalf. Completion of the various stepsout- I don't not wait the end of this seminar to tell you that this will be the last lined above should therefore be communicated to Dr. Turquet, Secretary of shall until ? the Advisory Committee, in order that he can make the necessary arrange- that I shall conduct. have will ments with the Training Committee. For some, apprised of things that been occurring, that not be a _l surprise. It is for the others, out of respect for their presence, that I am making B. The Central Executive recognizes that in exceptional circumstances in- this declaration. I request that absolute silence be maintained during the session. dividual candidates may fnot be able to conform to the timetable outlined quite late last night, when of news was above. In such circumstances, candidates may be considered on an individual Up until sometime a certain bit was my I would be giving what I basis. delivered to me, it belief that you this year have been dispensing for ten years now.r My seminar for today was prepared with as I have devoted to it, every week, for the last ten 9. Copies of this Minute are being sent to the Council and Training Commit- the same care always it is, my tee of the SFP and to the Members of the Study Group who are Members-at- years. I don't think I can do any better than offer to you as it with Large of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. apologies for the fact that it will have no sequel. I Stockholm August 2, 1963 I announced that I would speak this year of the Names-of-the-Father. It will not be possible for me, in the course of this single presentation, to convey to you the reason for the plural. At the least, you will perceive the beginning of an advancement I intended to introduce on a notion already initiated in the V third year of my seminar, when I dealt with the Schreber case. I will perhaps be more careful than ever before-since today it has been decided that I shall stop here-in punctuating for you, in my past teaching, the coordinates which allow the lineaments of this year's seminar to find their grounding. I wanted to link together the seminars ofJanuary 15, 22,29 and February 5, 1958, concerning what I have called the paternal metaphor, and 1. On the night of November 19, 1963, Serge Leclaire informed Lacan that the S.F.P. had voted, in a complicated procedure, to refuse not to ratify the motion striking Lacan's name fronr the list of training analysts. - 82 JACQUES,T_ACAN T he N arnes- of- the- F ather those following it, the seminars of December 20, 1961 and those followine it, concerning the function of.what the subject can attain in of the proper name, the seminars of May 1960 con- his realization as subject at the level of c''- cerning everything sciousness' It is by way of that bearing on the drama of the father in Claudel's irilogy, and chain that, once uguilr, the depende*i* ,,r finally desire in relation ro the desire the seminar of December 20, r96l , followed by the seminars ofJ"anuury of the other u.. uffirri.J. rn... .o"..prio"., 1962. the subject and the object have a radical, "r. restructurirrg'.nu.u.t.. *hi.h, u., t One finds there leave you, I am tempted to a direction which has already advanced quite far in its recall for you. structuration, To be sure, we have rong which would have allowed-me this year to take ih..r.*t rr.p. since taken our distance from any conception That next step follows from that would make of the subject a pure my seminar of last year on anxiety, and that is why function of intelligence, correlative of the intelligible, I intend ro show you wherein the relief it brought was necessary. such as rhe vo0s of antiquiry. At this j;";;;;., "[ anxiety is revearerr In the course as crucial. Not that aYowiu is not in of that seminar on anxiety, was able to accord their full Aristotle, buifor ancient thought, it could weight to formulae such a question of a local r709r pacified as the following: aniiet2 is an afect of the subjecl-a for- 94y.ut within the fassibility oithe whole mula which I did not Put forward without suboidinatin[ it to the functions that r___-_--^-r ruurr/ LrJo sufferingDutrcrrrlg oI ;;;;;:'il;';._"j,anuqulty, I. have long established som-ething even in what seems "i in the structu.re of the subject] defined as the subject farthest from it - io-called psychologicalosvch science or thought. that speaks and is determined through an effect of the'signifier. At what time-if I may There is assuredly something say time,let us say that that infernal term, for the well-founded in the correspondence be- while, refers only to tween intelligence and the intelligible. the synchronic level-at what time is the subject uff..t.d Psychology shows us without doubt thar with anxiety? h"Tll intelligence is none That is what the framed diagram I put on the blackboard is in- othe-r in its iounaJtion than animal intelligence, tended to recall and this is not without reason. for y9u. In anxiety, the subject is affected by the desire of the From that dimension of the intelligible, ass'u-.cl Other. He is to be a given and a fact, we affected by it in a nondialeciizable manner, and it is for that can, using evolution as a guide, deduce the prog- reason that anxiety, ress of intelligenc.: o.. ilf adaptation, within the affectivity of the subject, is what does not inde.ed^ev.n ir.,ugil. that such prog[.. i, deceive. In that reproduced in each individuar. zrthatdoes not deceiueyou can see in outline at just how radical a This.is all fine-.*.Jp, that a t,ypott."ri, t,u, level- more radical gone unacknowledged, which than anything hitherto designated therJby in Freud's dis- is precisely that facts are intelligibie. course-its function From the positivist as a signal is inscribed. That characterizaiion is in confor- Derspeciive, inielligence is no more than one affecr mity with the among others, based on the hypothesis first formulations Freud gave concerning anxiety as a direct of inteltigiUility-and that justifies that transformation psychology for fortune-tellers of the libido. which is capable oid.,n.ioping in *r,ut ...- Moreover, ingly the most liberated spheres, "r. I have.oppose-d the psychologizing tradition that distinguishes from the height of u.ud.-ic chairs.3 Affecr, fear from inversely, is then no more than anxiety by virtue of its correlates in r.ility. In this I have cfrang.d obscure-intelligJnce. What nevertheless escapes things, maintaining whoever is receiving- such teaching of anxiety-it is not utithout an oiject. is the obsJurantist effect to which he is bc- what is that ing submitted. one kn_ows, however, object?:^the object petit a, whose funldamental forms you have where it leads: to the irr.r.urirrrgi/in,.r- perceived sketched out tional undertakings of a technocracy, as far as I have been able to take them. The object petit a the psychological standardization is what falls from unemployed subjects, the entering 'l' the subject in anxiety. It is precisely the same obj'ect it ut I into the framework"of existent society,-i"",t delineated bowed beneath the psychologist's as the cause of desire. For the subject, there is substituted, ior arrxiety standard. which does not say that the meaning of Freud's deceive, what is to function-by way of the object paita. There- I discovery is in radical opposition to ;rll upon hinges that' It was in order to make the function of the act. you feel this that thi fi.st steps of my'teaching t.,<l the.paths development was reserved for the of Hegelian dialectic. when pondered in its -This future. And yet, I give you my basis, that dialectic 5as word, it will not logical roots' and may be reduced be totally lost for you, since, as of this momeni, I have in- to the intrinsic deficit of the logic of p...|i,,,- troduced it into tion. Namely that the universal, the - written - part of a book I have promised for six months once examined - and this has ,rJ, .r.Jp.J-it,,. contemporary school from now.2 of logic-may be grounded only by way of aggregati,,rr, and Last yeat,I restricted myself to the that the particular, alone in finding its existence function of the petit a in fantasy.