Jacques Lacan AND RESEARCH THE TRUTH
sermon given by Dom Mark Francis Lacan to the memory of his brother, 10 September 1981 at St Pierre du Gros Caillou
Jacques Lacan spoke. Why? To find out, should we listen to those who, since his death, talk less of him than of their own positioin to him? This is not the right way. What is needed is to remember who he was. He was a man. This man was seeking the truth the way he opened for the search was the Word.
RIGHTS:
sciences of man are probably so called because they enrich us with knowledge about various functions rights in so doing, they allow us to hide our ignorance and forget the man himself, our inattention to the fact that every man is a mystery. One mystery that remains unfathomable.
Jacques Lacan is primarily an attentive man to man, still inaccessible to its reality, its own character whose desire is to never be satisfied.
In the intellectual world, it was sometimes classified as a psychoanalyst, sometimes as a philosopher or a poet, or as a structuralist, surreal, actor ... The list could go on. But it is above all a man, he does not say he was human. His contribution to psychoanalysis, it is so important, does not say who he was. Quite the contrary, because it was this one man, named Jacques Lacan, he was able to highlight the discovery inaugurated by Freud: that of the unconscious. Development as the world of psychoanalysis has not allowed without a commotion.
But what is it that the unconscious? On hearing this word, everyone cares to ask for a definition. Such concern reveals more often, less a search for clarity, the leak before a mystery that worries and yet characteristic of psychic life in its reality. The unconscious
defies definition, it means the man himself in this aspect of his mystery that does not take his conscience. Talk to the man's unconscious, he recalled that it applies to forget, so save this forgetting that everything is organized to promote at the end of the twentieth century. He remembered that its center lies elsewhere than in himself. He discover that the road ahead is not what Descartes inaugurated: "I think therefore I am." This deduction is based on which Descartes Will it enable him to understand what "I" thinking? Lacan Reply: "I am not what I think."
thus formulated truth springs from the discovery of the unconscious, ie the man himself. Recognition of the unconscious allows man to access his reality, far from locked up in the limits of conscious life, it should open to a relationship that constitutes a relationship with the another. Such a relationship creates a search, the search for truth, the truth about the Other, and inseparably to the truth about man, constituted by its relation to the Other.
THE TRUTH:
Jacques Lacan was a man, so a truth seeker. The truth: that word is scary. Each, like Pilate, reacted by saying: "What is truth? "And walked away without waiting for an answer.
Lacan discovered, thanks to Freud, the plea to hear the answer: "Freud, he writes, has to leave, under the name of the unconscious, speak the truth" [i]. Let speak the truth, that's the way, the only one to know. No knowledge provides access to this knowledge. Play truth is the one thing necessary. If consciousness can hear the truth, however often she closes them. The unconscious is the voice of the repressed truth: more precisely, it is the way, that is to say, the path through which it passes, when the man refused to listen.
Here takes place the intervention of the psychoanalyst. He is silent, but he invites to speak, to try to hear the truth that will go through in unexpected ways, the truth of which will perhaps give birth without pain-no-man talking.
What Lacan calls the psychoanalyst to listen, is the patient? It is rather the fact that it has suppressed the truth of his desire. It is this type of play that bases his method psychoanalyst. It is able to hear the truth tell it. But Lacan knows that "it is impossible to tell the whole truth is that impossible by that truth is the real" [ii].
The real is in fact inaccessible in its fullness. We reduce it to what we know. However, we can open ourselves to the knowledge of reality, and thus respond to the deep desire that constitutes us. Mutilate this desire makes us sick, psychologically or spiritually. Health, such as holiness, requires that we seek the truth, and for that, we hear him speak.
THE WORD:
We can now answer our original question: "Why Jacques Lacan speaks there? For, since his death, he still speaks.
He is accused his style, and the darkness that characterizes it. He replied: "Just ten years to write what became clear to all" [iii].
must add this: whenever a man is carrying, not to communicate knowledge, but an invitation to speak and seek truth, this pure, to listen, he is faced with a refusal who hides behind a charge often: "What he says is impossible to hear." (Cf. Gospel of John, 6.60).
Lacan did not speak for anything other than to open the door to the word that comes from elsewhere, for this Word of the Other which indicates the presence unconscious, this presence is real and its reality is manifested by the fear it provokes and the refusal to listen is the result of this fear.
Through the written work of Lacan, what should we look for him? An oral teaching unfinished and fixed? No. What you should discover is a man in search of truth, truth is the treasure mentioned in the story: he had to dig the field to find the hidden treasure. This treasure of truth belongs to those who learn by experience that this treasure is nothing you can possess.
The happiness of man is to decide to open the Word of the Other. This desire is prompted by a presence without which man is most himself and through which springs from a word that makes him witness to the truth, a word that expresses his desire to ever new source of life man.
Speech of Jacques Lacan worried men, because it forces them to leave their false peace, asking the real question here. In fact, I do not have to ask: "What have or know to become a man happy? . But the real question to ask is, "Who is calling me to find in his search for the meaning of my life? .
Marc-Francois Lacan,
Benedictine monk
Marc-Francois Lacan 
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