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Lacanian triad and the 'sinthome'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinthome

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The term "/*sinthome*/" (French: [sɛ̃tom] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French>) was introduced by 
Jacques Lacan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan> in his 
seminar /Le sinthome/ (1975–76). According to Lacan, /sinthome/ is the 
Latin way (1495 Rabelais, IV,63) of spelling the Greek origin of the 
French word /symptôme/, meaning symptom 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptom>. The seminar is a continuing 
elaboration of his topology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology>, 
extending the previous seminar's focus (/RSI/) on the Borromean Knot 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings> and an exploration of 
the writings of James Joyce <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce>. 
Lacan redefines the psychoanalytic symptom in terms of his topology of 
the subject.

In "Psychoanalysis and its Teachings" (/Écrits/) Lacan views the symptom 
as inscribed in a writing process, not as ciphered message 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ciphered_message&action=edit&redlink=1> 
which was the traditional notion. In his seminar "L'angoisse" (1962-63) 
he states that the symptom does not call for interpretation: in itself 
it is not a call to the Other 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_%28philosophy%29> but a pure 
jouissance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouissance> addressed to no 
one. This is a shift from the linguistic definition of the symptom — as 
a signifier <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_%28linguistics%29> — to 
his assertion that "the symptom can only be defined as the way in which 
each subject enjoys (/jouit/) the unconscious in so far as the 
unconscious determines the subject." He goes from conceiving the symptom 
as a message which can be deciphered by reference to the unconscious 
structured like a language to seeing it as the trace of the particular 
modality of the subject's /jouissance/.

This shift from linguistics to topology constitutes the status of the 
/sinthome/ as unanalyzable. The seminar extends the theory of the 
Borromean knot, which in /RSI/ (Real, Symbolic, Imaginary) had been 
proposed as the structure of the subject, by adding the /sinthome/ as 
the fourth ring to the triad already mentioned, tying together a knot 
which constantly threatens to come undone. Since meaning (/sens/) is 
already figured within the knot, at the intersection of the Symbolic and 
the Imaginary, it follows that the function of the /sinthome/ — knotting 
together the Real <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real>, the 
Imaginary 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginary_%28psychoanalysis%29> and 
the Symbolic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolic> — is beyond 
meaning.




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