A Commentary on the Twelfth Session of Lacan’s XXIVth Seminar: L’Insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile

This paper is a commentary on some intriguing facets to his teaching introduced by Lacan in this final session of his seminar of ‘76 – ’77 I’Insu que sait de l’unebévue s’aile à mourre. The appearance of the book Polylogue by Julia Kristeva is the opportunity for Lacan to tackle the question of his position with respect to linguistics. Essentially this is that no linguistics has value for Lacan other than ‘linguisterie’, that is to say, a linguistics which takes psychoanalysis into account.…