ABSTRACT
J. Lacan notes that it is precisely this jouissance of the body, of the other’s body, that he called l’(a)mur. Lacan contends that he had “always spoken to the wall” addressing himself to the very structure of the chapel, to the structure and limits of speech and language. If the piercing in the tongue is one sort of writing, a type that marks out a hole in the tongue, a hole in language, is the bloodstain as a response from the other’s body another sort? On one side of the wall there is the private writing of a symptom, an inscription of the phallic function. The wall then is also the surface of the writing of the mathemes, it is a topological surface. The Borromean knot is written on the wall. On the wall was written, “Let’s be reasonable: let’s ask for the impossible”. On one side is the reasonable which is the side of meaning, of signification.
