ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Lacanian viewpoint on psychoanalysis serves as the main background. It explores the Lacanian background further implies that the subject, then, is “what is represented by a signifier for another signifier”. The signifier is, in the first place, consistent with S. Freud’s model, in itself a thing, which only secondarily acquires its linguistic dimension in relation to something it may denote. A common characteristic of Freud’s word presentation, Jacques Lacan’s signifier and A. Damasio’s lexical unit is that they are phonologically encoded. Metaphorization is an operation whereby a meaning of a signifier is put into an unusual lexical position which then enforces the reading of the signifier: in essence, then, it is secondary processes getting hold of primary process language associativity. The metaphors truly formalize the logical dynamics of how primary and secondary processes interact for targeted action.
