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==Linguistic ===Definition=====As early The term [[sinthome]] is, as 1957[[Lacan]] points out, the an archaic way of writing what has more recently been spelt [[symptomsymptôme]] is said to be 'inscribed in a writing process' (Ec, 445).
=====Jacques Lacan=====
=====1975-6 Seminar=====
[[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 knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
Through this ''coincidentia oppositorum'' -- bringing together [[mathematics|mathematical theory]] and the intricate weave of the [[James Joyce|Joycean]] [[text]] -- [[Lacan]] redefines the [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] in [[terms]] of his final [[topology]] of the [[subject]].
=====Development of the Concept of the "Symptom"=====Before the [[appearance]] of [[sinthome]], divergent currents in [[Lacan]] defines the 's [[symptomthinking]] in lead to different inflections of the [[linguisticconcept]] terms, as a of the [[signifiersymptom]].
=====Symptom as pure ''Jouissance''=====
In 1963 [[Lacan]] goes on to [[state]] that the [[symptom]], unlike [[acting out]], does not call for [[interpretation]]; in itself, it is not a call to the [[Other]] but a pure ''[[jouissance]]'' addressed to no one.<ref>{{L}} 1962-3. ''[[Seminar X|Le Séminaire. Livre X. L'angoisse]]'', 1962-3, unpublished.</ref>
=====The Way in Which the Subject Enjoys the Unconscious=====
Such comments anticipate the radical transformation of Lacan's [[thought]] implicit in his shift from the [[linguistic]] definition of the [[symptom]] - as a [[signifier]] - to his [[statement]], in the 1974-5 [[seminar]], 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 him."<ref>{{L}} 1974-5. ''[[Seminar XXII|Le Séminaire. Livre XXII. RSI]]'', 1974-5, published in ''[[Ornicar?]]'', nos. 2-5, 1975.</ref>
=====Symptom as the Particular Modality of the Subject's ''Jouissance''=====
This move from conceiving of 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]]'', culminates in the introduction of the term ''[[sinthome]]''.
=====Kernel of Enjoyment Beyond the Symbolic=====
The ''[[sinthome]]'' thus designates a signifying formulation beyond [[analysis]], a kernel of [[enjoyment]] immune to the efficacy of the [[symbolic]].
=====Organization of ''Jouissance''=====
Far from calling for some [[analytic]] "[[dissolution]]," the ''[[sinthome]]'' is what "allows one to live" by providing a unique organisation of ''[[jouissance]]''.
=====Identification with the ''Sinthome''=====The task of ''[[symptomanalysis]] does not call for '' thus becomes, in one of [[interpretationLacan]]'s last definitions of the [[end of analysis]], to [[identify]] with the ''[[sinthome]]''.
=====Shift from Linguistics to Topology=====The [[symptomtheoretical]] shift from [[linguistics]] is not a call to [[topology]] which marks the final period of Lacan's [[work]] constitutes the [[Othertrue]] but pure ''status of the [[jouissancesinthome]]'' addressed as unanalysable, and amounts to no an exegetical problem beyond the familiar oneof [[Lacan]]'s dense [[rhetoric]].<ref>Lacan, 1962-3: seminar of 23 January 1963</ref>
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]]'' -- intervening to [[knot]] together [[real]], [[symbolic]] and [[imaginary]] - is inevitably beyond [[meaning]].
In the 1975-6 [[seminar]], [[Joyce]]'s [[writing]] is read as an extended ''[[sinthome]] is what 'allows one to live' by providing , a unique organisation fourth term whose addition to the [[borromean knot]] of ''RSI'' allows the [[jouissancesubject]]to cohere.
====="Destructive" Refashioning of Language=====The [[Joycean]] text -- from the epiphany to ''[[James Joyce|Finnegans Wake]]'' -- entailed a special relation to [[language]]; a "destructive" refashioning of it as ''[[sinthome]] as unanalysable'', the invasion of the [[symbolic order]] by the [[subject]]'s private ''[[jouissance]]''.
One of [[Lacan]] introduces the term in 1975's puns, as the title for the 1975-6 ''[[seminar]], which is both a continuing elaboration of his [[topology]], extending the previous [[seminarsinthome|synth-homme]]'s focus on the [[BORROMEAN KNOT]]', and an exploration of the writings implies this kind of "artificial" [[James Joyceself]]-creation.
=====Topological Theory=====
[[Topology|Topological theory]] is not conceived of as merely [[another]] kind of representational account, but as a [[form]] of writing, a praxis aiming to [[figure]] that which escapes the [[imaginary]].
==See Also==
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* [[Borromean knot]]
* [[Interpretation]]
* ''[[Jouissance]]''
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* [[Message]]
* [[Psychosis]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Symptom]]
* [[Topology]]
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