29 .The Seminar. Book III,pp.64‒65.
30. Ibid., p. 69.
31. Ibid., pp. 69 , 75.
32. Ibid., p. 37 (emphasis added).
33. Ibid., p. 64.
34 .The Seminar. Book VII,p. 12.
35. See S. Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious,in SE, VIII, p. 115.
36 .The Seminar. Book III,p. 64.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 65.
39. Ibid., p. 66.
40. Ibid., p. 64. It goes without saying that here the religious undertones of the notion of the
Name-of-the-Father find their justification.
41. Ibid., p. 65. Such an “act of faith,” Descartes’s certaintythat he is not deceived by God, pre-
supposes the sublation of the strictly speaking psychotic position according to which
“God certainlydeceives me.” In Cartesian philosophy, this is nothing but so-called “hyper-
bolic doubt”: “What if God is deceiving me all the time?”...
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., p. 64.
44. Ibid.
45. For example, Lacan clearly relies on his notions of the Name-of-the-Father and the phal-
lus when he analyzes historically disparate (and premodern) cultural phenomena such
as ancient comedy (in Seminar V) and courtly love poetry (in Seminar VII).
46. See Le séminaire livre IV,p. 51. Lacan admits: “I’m speaking about the history of humanity
as a whole” (ibid., p. 50 ).
47. To put it bluntly, it is only at this moment that the stone with which “prehistoric” man
grinds his food will have becomea tool....
48. J. Lacan, Le séminaire livre XVII. L’envers de la psychanalyse, 1969–1970(Paris: Seuil, 1991 ), p.13 5.
49 .The Seminar. Book VII,pp.66‒67(emphases added).
50 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 211.
51. For an account of Lacan’s reelaboration of Freud’s use of myths, see D. Leader, “Lacan’s
Myths,” in The Cambridge Companion to Lacan,ed. J.-M. Rabaté (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 2003 ), pp.35‒50.
52 .Écrits: A Selection,pp.310 ‒ 311(emphasis added).
53 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 219 (emphasis added). See also Le séminaire livre V,p. 367.notes to pages 111–126