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==Linguistic Definition==
As early as 1957, the [[symptom]] is said to be 'inscribed in a writing process' (Ec, 445).
The [[sinthome]] as unanalysable.
[[Lacan]] introduces the term in 1975, as the title for the 1975-6 [[seminar]], which is both a continuing elaboration of his [[topology]], extending the previous [[seminar]]'s focus on the [[BORROMEAN KNOTborromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
Through this [[''coincidentia oppositorum]] '' - bringing together [[mathematical]] theory and the intricate weave of the [[Joycean]] text – [[Lacan]] redefines the [[psychoanalytic]] symptom in terms of his final topology of the subject.
Before the appearance of [[sinthome]], divergent currents in [[Lacan]]'s thinking lead to different inflections of the concept of the [[SYMPTOMsymptom]].
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