The Object a.

For many reasons, we are led to translate the Lacanian objet a into the English-Lacanian object o, picking up on the first letter of the little other, as Lacan in fact did to arrive at that naming. But I also think that the expression object a could remain as such in English, at least if we hear this letter 'a' as the first letter of the word 'any'. The objet a is not 'any' object; but I'd like to convince you that this object a is the first step towards mastery of this very important piece of the symbolic order which this 'any' is; that is, the ability to conceive what a variable is.…