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Télévision The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller. The ORTF (french public TV) broadcast this programme called « psychanalyse ». Then, this intervention was re-written and published in 1974 under the name Télévision .
Interview - Jacques Lacan - Par Miller - 90'
"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you—the objet petit a —I mutilate you. This is the meaning of that breast-complex, that mammal-complex […] except that the orality in question has nothing to do with food, and that the whole stress is placed on this effect of mutilation. In the fable I read, when I was a child, in these early forms of strip cartoon, the poor beggar at the restaurant door feasted himself on the smell of the roasting meat. On this occasion, the smell is the menu, that is to say, signifiers, since we are concerned with speech only. Well! There is this complication— and this is my fable—that the menu is written in Chinese, so the first step is to order a translation from the patronne.

