Reading L'étourdit: The Second Turn.Chapter 2: The Discourse of the Analyst.

This continuation of Christian Fieren's 2002 book, Lecture de L'étourdit. Lacan 1972. (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002), is translated here into English by Cormac Gallagher. Fierens follows the four sections of Lacan‟s work, in the previous paper, and in doing so, provides an excellent exposition of the many difficult passages, allusions, and references. In so doing, he enables us to re-read Lacan which facilitates a movement which goes beyond the meaning of the said, to the ab-sense of the sense.…