To associate these two terms of truth and of unconscious—the lapsus or the parapraxis permits it—it is held, thus, since Freud. Indeed, the lapsus or parapraxis is taken as avowal of a truth. If one tightens things a little, one can say, when a lapsus occurs—Lacan begins his text that I called mind-blowing with that—there follows, in the analytic experience, and beyond it as well from now on, an effect of truth, the term of effect diminishing here the term of truth.

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