L’Insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre. An Overview

This overview of Lacan’s Seminar XXIV from 1976-77 addresses the many layers of meaning discernible in its title L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre. Lacan’s remarkable return to the topology of the torus, his subtle musings on the unconscious, love, poetry and the real convey a sense of the urgency regarding the task that, even in these final years of his teaching, he regarded as unfinished. The equivocal title of the seminar calls out for interpretation.…