For Lacan’s own use of this expression, see, for example, “Preface to the English-
Language Edition,” in The Seminar. Book XI. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis(Lon-
don: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1977 ), p. xli; Le séminaire livre XVII,
pp.56‒57.
This was the title given by Lacan to his interrupted Seminar of 19 63.
See Lacan’s considerations on Gide’s perversion in Le séminaire livre V,pp.258‒261.
Ibid., p. 317 (emphasis added).
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 316.
Ibid., p. 367.
Ibid., p. 312.
62 .Écrits: A Selection,p. 311.
Ibid., p. 316 (my translation; emphasis added).
Ibid., pp.316 ‒ 317.
J. P. Muller and W. J. Richardson, Lacan and Language(New York: International Universities
Press, 1982 ), p. 409.
J.-A. Miller, “La suture: éléments de la logique du signifiant,” in Un début dans la vie(Paris:
Gallimard, 2002 ), p. 108.
See, for example, Seminar XXI, “Les non-dupes errent,” unpublished, 1973‒1974, lesson
of April 9 , 1974.
The locution Real-in-the-Symbolic (“le réel dans le symbolique”) and symbolic Real (“le réel
symbolique”) are used by Lacan himself, especially during the years in which he prob-
lematized the notion of the Other of the Other: see, for example, Le séminaire livre IV,p. 209 ;
Le séminaire livre V,p. 12 ; Seminar VI, lessons of May 20 , 1959 and June 3 , 1959.
69 .The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book I, Freud’s Papers on Technique, 1953–1954(New York: Norton,
1988 ), pp. 121 , 13 7.
Such a sign is ambiguous, since it could easily be read misleadingly as the “Real-that-is-
barred-by-the-Symbolic,” whereas what I wish to denote is quite the opposite: the Real
that will have been barred by the Symbolic was always already barred in itself.
See Le séminaire livre IV,p. 31.
See, for example, Le séminaire livre V,p. 246.
Well-known formulas such as “the real has no fissure” and “there is no absence in the
real” undoubtedly refer to this second meaning of the Real (see, for example, The Seminar
of Jacques Lacan. Book II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954–1955
[New York: Norton, 1991 ], pp. 97 , 313 ).
74 .The Seminar. Book III,p. 186.
75 .Le séminaire livre IV,p. 31.