ABSTRACT
A lecture originally given as a keynote address to the APW conference in Toronto in 2014 later published in Lacunae, May 2015, is reprinted here. The content of the lecture/paper is the question of whether Lacan’s Seminar VI is to be considered as a striking anamorphosis, i.e. a reading of Freud that is exact and faithful but angled to reveal a new dimension to psychoanalytic theory – tragedy, or, as palimpsest, an overwriting of the Freudian. The main elements of the seminar are outlined, and examined within the context of this over-arching question.
