Against the so-called formation, the formations of all kinds, those that are informed in the knowledge that accumulates in publications and is repeated thanks to well-constructed discourses, the mass effects that knowledge produces, far from the circus of everything that works and spreads, Lacan turns to us and tells us: if you had a little thread, whatever it is, that —he says at that moment to the young psychiatrists in “psychoanalytic training”— would be infinitely more valuable to you than anything else. , to the extent that this would necessarily lead them to what is involved in this relationship of concern with something that is unique, in each encounter, in each experience. Experience of an analysis, but also experience of reading practice and what a reading writes. From the thread, each experience finds pieces, shreds fallen in the text itself; he pulls them to hole the darning there. Then, whims of the language, the thread and the edge converge, since the letter f and the letter h have been commuted in the history of Spanish: the thread comes to stretch until it finds the sharpness of the edge and the cut comes to refine until it finds the delicacy of the thread As we read in the poetic work of the weaver:

…the void is calm, we can attract it

with a thread and inaugurate it in insignificance.

J. Lezama Lima