There is the repressed. Always. It is irreducible.
To elaborate the unconscious, as is done in analysis, is nothing but to produce 
this hole. Freud himself, I remind you, makes reference to it.


This seems to me to converge, pertinently, with death.
To the death that I identify with the fact that, “like the sun”, as the other says, cannot be looked at in the face.
So I don't look at it any more than anyone else. I do what I have to do, which is
to face the fact of the unconscious as opened up by Freud.

In this, I am alone.


Then there is the group. I want “The Cause” to hold up.
– The cartel works. It's enough not to obstruct it, except to vectorise, which I give the formula for, and to permutate.
– There is a Board of Management. Its leaders are in place for two years – after which they change.
– Committees assist them, also for two years.
– An annual assembly, known as the Administrative Assembly, has to deal with the running of things; it is a permanent body.
– Every two years, a Congress, to which all are invited.
– Finally, a Council, called statutory, is the guarantor of what I institute.


The Cause will have its School. From which the A.M.S. will proceed from the Freudian Cause now.

The Pass will produce the new A.S. – always new in that being for the time, that is to say, three years, testifying in the School.


For it is better that this A.S. should pass, before becoming wedged [s’encastrer] into the caste.


Jacques Lacan
This 23rd October 1980

Translated by Chantal Degril