ABSTRACT
Our Association (Association lacanienne internationale) has once again taken up a theme that is dear to me, and I cannot thank them enough. But I should explain that the aspect of the theme that is dear to me is the following: quite incontestably Freud’s observations on the subject constitute the Rosetta Stone of psychoanalysis, and it seems that a great deal remains to be deciphered, for very good reasons connected with what we call the work of thinking — with what functions for each one of us as the work of thinking.
