ABSTRACT
Writing is beyond crossing-out the particular traces of the subject of the unconscious, specific to the differential structure of the signifier. The thesis is strong in its broad ethical scope and its consequences for praxis, and for the theory upon which it is based. For Lacan, that is the ethics of the analyst. Lacan referred to the courage of the act that the end requires and which is clear in the capacity to extract oneself from the glue, as Cynthia Fleury said. To prove that one is extracted from the glue, to have the courage to take the risk, comprises the mark that Lacan hoped the analyst would demonstrate, both in terms of analytic theory and the analytic community. Lacan’s emphasis falls on the production of a mark in an analysis that makes a knot in structure at the very point where the constitutive knot of the subject fails.
