ABSTRACT
The status of the jouissance that does not write the sexual relation changes the function of what we call the symptom. The symptom, indeed, is not just any decipherable formation of the unconscious. The dream, the lapsus, and the bungled action, although sometimes repeated, are punctual but the symptom, by its constancy and fixity, both enjoyable and uncomfortable, is different from these ephemeral manifestations. In all cases, the lettrified one of the symptom, which may be holophrastic, applies only to a given subject, depending on the jouissance value that words have for that subject. It is a very singular saying that links the real unconscious to the imaginary of the relation to his counterparts, without passing by way of the body. It is clear that this fundamental symptom, constituting a social bond, in contrast to what is usually the case, does not involve for him the difference between the sexes, or his link to the woman.
