ABSTRACT
J. Lacan starts out by talking about the seriousness needed for analytic experience whether in sessions or in his seminar. In session 3 Lacan also introduces a new way of thinking of the subject, and of the subject of the Real in particular. The subject is what is supposed to the fact that the Imaginary and the Symbolic have to support and tolerate the knot of three and what ties them together. In Real, Symbolic, Imaginary Lacan argues that the Real appears in traces, strokes, or pieces that threaten our imaginary or symbolic sensibilities, the sense or senses through which we understand the world. Lacan says that the Imaginary and the Symbolic are free from one another and that it is the Real that produces the impact, knot, or needle-point that links them together. The relationship between lalangue and jouissance is ambiguous in Lacan. Lalangue produces what Lacan calls "Other-jouissance" or "jouissance of the Other".
