Truth is Coupled with Meaning: From lie to real?
This is an amended extract of parts of a paper presented at the London Society of the New Lacanian School, working with Jacques-Alain Miller’s Truth is Coupled with Meaning , focussing here less on Miller’s paper which of course I commend to you in its own right, and more to the thread of my own question which I had posited during the previous event in this series of days of work at the London Society of the New Lacanian School, coupled with reference to a presentation of the pass which had been discussed in a limited way on that previous occasion. ⁂ I start this work with Jacques-Alain Miller’s text Truth is Coupled with Meaning with my own question. A question which I had posited in our work last time. It’s a question I ask in relation to this paper because it’s not far from MIller’s opening problem of the non-relation of truth to jouissance. The question I asked was whether we can consider some lies to be amboceptors of a real? I will start by saying that I think the an...