- Is it possible for a symbol of something also to be that which it is the symbol of (yes)
1.1 The image is that of the pressure of a crowded thicket:do I get lost in it, or perhaps become a part of it?
1.2 Can I distinguish one tree from another, a path between the trees, or take them as a whole?
- Discourses:Lacan seems to be in the hysterical discourse, but perhaps that is me, hysterically wanting something, as it were, anything?
2.1 How do we distinguish between the discourses, if a conversation may slip back and forth between any of the four registers? Is this something that involves the other party, or can one have one side in one register and the other in another register? (I expect so.)
2.2 I expect the psychoanalyst does not try to remain in the psychoanalytic register so much as it is the absence of the other three (following Lacan's affinity to what is not).
- What I find discouraging is that there is a refusal to say anything, but then, when it suits Lacan does say something, or does do something, or his followers valourise him (his sexual activity and seductive powers as in the story about the taxi). This is very irritating, on the one hand he heaps scorn on human activity, on the other he is apparently the consummate player. I cry foul!