ABSTRACT
J. Lacan explores the move from three to four in his seminar on James Joyce in 1975–1976. Throughout his seminar of 1975–1976 Lacan works to develop a viable showing of the four ringed Borromean knot. Lacan, with Heidegger in mind, questions what the truth of the human subject is. For the most part, Lacan relates his four ringed Borromean knot to the enigma of Joyce’s writing, what he calls Joyce’s sinthome. Oscar Zentner has written extensively on the question of Lacan’s theorising of the Joycean sinthome. In the Sinthome seminar, the year following the RSI seminars, Lacan constructs various Borromean knots with four rings. Syphoning off Lacan’s theory of the Borromean knot, it offers something to the author theorising of the end of an analysis. This is what is at stake in the author “get knotted”, the way one knotting can sponsor the emergence of another.
