From an Other to the other, Book XVI

Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and foremost the man who wrote, -Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores and implores. The whole invention of the Universe with its notes falling vertiginously one by one into the abyss where the wonders of our dimensions are written.-

Well, Lacan is, to me, the one who says in this Seminar, -We are all familiar with hell, it is everyday life.-

Is that the same thing? No, I don''t think so. Here there is no adoration, no invisible orchestra, no vertigo or wonders. Let us begin by the end: Lacan -evacuated- from the rue d-Ulm along with his audience, not without resistance or an uproar. The episode was in all the papers. What had he done to deserve such a fate? He had spoken not only to psychoanalysts, but also to young people who were still fired up by the events of May 1968, who nevertheless accepted him as a master of discourse at the sa