1. “Semblants and sinthome”

This is the conclusion of a ternary that Jacques-Alain Miller announced in Buenos Aires:
a ternary constituted by signifiers that Lacan introduced into psychoanalysis, of which the
two first terms are the Name-of-the-Father and the object a, on which the AWP has
worked during its last two Congresses. The originality of this ternary is that it is a
question of limit-points of the theoretical elaboration of Lacan, of syntagms of
conjunction and disjunction which permit a point of view on the subject still internal to the
field in which it is placed, the field of the Other, but equally beyond the limit of this field,
which succeeds thus in relativising itself , of “de-consisting”. These are some syntagms
which bear the function , in the Lacanian theoretical corpus, of the death’s head,
deformed in the anamorphosis of the Ambassadors of Holbein, commented upon in
Seminar XI. These are some semblants which have the particular status of “showing the
real.”

2. The-Name-of-the-Father

A systematic analysis of the formula “The-Name-of-the-Father” took place at the Rome
Congress: “You can do without it, on the condition of using it.” The privileged signifier,
pivot of the well turned-out subjective, and of psychoanalytic work, brings with it its share
of belief which makes of each subject a faithful one, disposed to sacrifice himself to a
more or less obscure god, even when this god takes the name of Science. The theoretical
position elaborated out of this...