Reading L’Etourdit

The following is an extract from Christian Fierens' 2002 book, Lecture de L'Etourdit. Lacan 1972 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002), translated here into English by Cormac Gallagher. As a writer Lacan's whole life could be summarised by the wish “in the end to be properly read” (Lituraterre, Autres écrits, p. 13). Far from being material for a simple reading, the Ecrits of 1966 and a fortiori the Autres ecrits, published in 2001, should be deciphered as rebuses.…