Found in Translation
The following is a presentation made somewhat after my work in translating Jacques-Alain Miller's L'os d'un cure / Analysis Laid Bare for the work of the School, and perhaps I would have wished that this book had been produced in the manner described below, whilst it had been supported by the work of a team of others which was much appreciated. The presentation was made at a Cartel Study Day of the London Society of the New Lacanian School, a Cartel being a central organ of transmission in the School, a gathering around an agreed subject of study for no more than two years of between three and five participants, four being a fair number, plus one as an extimate to the group, decompleting the group effect that a cartel can produce. ___ The cartel was put to work initially by Lacan as an organ of the then new School, to work on themes imminent to its formation. We might tend to think cartels as devices principally for each to study for themselves, but it is also a device fo...