ABSTRACT
The philosopher's "love of truth" had more of a status of Platonic love that shuns the real, rather than an encounter with the real of jouissance that language impacts on the body. Truth in psychoanalysis is not opposed to falsity or lying but appears as immanent opening of the unconscious. The truth is only a cause when it causes an effect, a speech effect. Jacques Lacan rearranges Aristotle's ikebana of causes by marking the truth as a cause that has an effect. Lacan marks the ambiguous relation between truth and cause by passing, as it were, the truth as cause through the four corners of Aristotle's ikebana. Heideggerian logos, understood as a process and effect of gathering of the signifiers under the roof of all-is-one, runs contrary to the signifying differentiation in the life of the suffering subject ploughing his history back and forth.
