The Non the Pair: A Vertical Relation

Lacan said that he was advancing the insights of Freud's war trauma neuroses from the First World War to better fortify the military unit. The non the pair is a vertical function this is what Eric Laurent pointed out in his essay on the group and the real. And then Lacan called fraternities at the end of a seminar the father or worse, or worse. What I witnessed was precisely the way in which when the structuring principle of a world falls, suddenly there's a principle of fraternity and there's a horizontal principle of segregation,. perhaps the affinity group is a principle of segregation.