ABSTRACT

As was explained in Chapter Three, in Lacan’s later teaching subjectivity is maintained by the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary holding to each other through either a Borromean knot or a supplementary fourth ring, the sinthome. If Georgios’ writing as Vizyenos achieved a temporal subsistence of the subject—the effects of whose disappearance were discussed above—could this have come about by a fourth ring that knotted the detached real, symbolic, and imaginary?