ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author proposes to start an antiphilosophical inventory by looking at some of the imbecilities that the educational assumption of the university discourse intends to transmit with regard to the notion of plagiarism. He intends to suggest that in the 1975 short text “Peut-etre a Vincennes” Lacan himself comes to a similar conclusion, and thus overcomes his 1971 paper according to which teaching and the university discourse were de factoincompatible. If the presentation of patients can teach us something thanks to the fact that it depends essentially on the university discourse, according to Jacques-Alain Miller, “this perfectly proves that it is not enough to shut up and listen in order instantly to enter the analytic discourse”. In “Topology in the teaching of Lacan”, Miller argues that “topology cannot be taken out of Lacan’s teaching”.