19 TN. I have modified Mehlman's clever translation of Lacan's phrase ( " . . . peut être abandonnée sans dommage aux inférences de la cuisine " ). Mehlman gives it as ". . . the inferences of those whose profession is grilling," which captures the sense of cuisiner as interrogation. Thus, Lacan is mocking Bonaparte as a member of the "psychoanalytic police," perhaps comparing her to the police in The Purloined Letter, and perhaps also referring to his own expulsion from the International Psychoanalytic Association.