ABSTRACT
I left you with the question of knowing what can produce a truly human formation. What is to be humanised is man as an animal denatured by the effects of the unconscious on the real, of the unconscious that is also real because it is made of lalangue, which is outside meaning. Lacan did not cease to make progress on this question. He started with the paternal metaphor which supposed that the father was necessary, going up to the schema of the Borromean knot that he introduced, and not by accident, at the very moment where he says, “the real unconscious” and where he formulates his hypothesis. These three steps are simultaneous and solidary. Lacan awaited an answer to the question of the humanisation that can go through the father, but doesn’t necessarily have to. This answer, crucial for our time must be opened up, but also evaluated. This is what I will attempt to do after following the steps leading up to it.
