NOTES IN CONNECTION
WITH THE KNOTS OF
THE SINTHOME
I
did not assist with
the seminar “the SINTHOME”. I used
three sources
(Ornicar? , the
version of "Association freudienne" and that
of "Le Seuil"). I
confronted the
drawings and the
text and corrected
the errors.
The
seminar “Le Sinthome” opens on
four drawings of
specific knots with
five crossings,
which Lacan did not
comment on this day.
They are four forms
of the same node. He
will baptize the
second form “Node of Lacan”, the
17/02/76.
These four forms are
presented by Taits
in “On Knots”,
in 1877. There is
for each one, a laevogyrous
presentation and a dextrogyrous
presentation.
It
appeared preferable
to me to give the
four forms of the
same presentation,
that is to say to
reverse the
crossings of the
first drawing.
The
knots of the seminar
are arranged by
date. The knots of
the same meeting are
classified
successively as
following the
comment of Lacan
