The Freudian Unconscious

There's almost there's a retreat from speech even in the later work. If you see a series of diagrams, he'd often show up with a line of rope and just tie knots for people and then diagram the knots. He was training people not just to master the concepts and the math themes, but also to learn to listen like an analyst. And so if you move forward into like seminar 23 or something on the synthome where he's writing about Joyce Lacan's at the end of his career, you don't even see that much speech anymore.