Erring Fathers

Lacan's Twenty-First Seminar is not easy to follow. Not only because of Lacan's style in the transmission of psychoanalysis, but also because - it seems to me - it is placed, as a hinge, at the very heart of a decisive turning-point of the clinic in which this transmission is based. What kind of subject do we operate with? The Lacanian subject can be defined as 'the effect that permanently displaces the individual from the species, the effect that separates the particular from the universal, the case from the rule'[1].…