Lacan
[excerpt]

Philippe Sollers

translated by Asunción Alvarez

 

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At the television studio where I was the other evening, the news had to do with the date of his physical disappearance. The following news items were given, in order: the arrival of Picasso's Guernica in Madrid; a shot of hundreds of whales who had come to throw themselves upon the shores of Tasmania in a collective suicide; then, Lacan's face. The news is the sum total of the logical relations which prove the necessity of objective randomness.

I thought all these whales suited Lacan, who had always reminded me of Melville's Ahab. Guernica Also. One might come up—without shocking the politically correct too much, who regard crime as external in this sublime picture (Fascism is the other)—with a new title: "Ravages of the Freudian lamp introduced by force in Mythology." Or, if you prefer: "What happens when a Minotaur holds out despite the whirlwind of the death drive and its parasites."

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Lacan said that Woman does not exist. Or, at least that she is not All. A Matter of Capital Letters. No woman, of course, would forgive him (and no man, unless he became a Minotaur). For this reason they seemed to love him so. Lacan is an obvious case, something absolutely not recommendable. I read something written by a nice boy who said that he had "bad manners." It is true. Execrable.

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