Temporal Instance
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.184
Presentation on Psychical Causality > *Discussion of the Sophism* > *Value of the Suspended Motions in the Process* 202
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the 'suspended motions' in the sophism are not external experiential data but intrinsic to the logical process itself, whose structure is irreducibly temporal rather than spatial; the signifying function of these interruptions constitutes a genuinely temporal logic whose modulation across three evidential moments (the instant of the glance, the time for comprehending, the moment of concluding) must be understood in terms of genesis and resorption rather than spatial juxtaposition.
These temporal instances, which are constitutive of the process of the sophism, permit us to recognize a true logical movement in it.