ABSTRACT
The subject who addresses the analyst knows the indices of his social identity such as profession, sex, income, religion, etc. but what he presents are the uncontrollable repetitions, inhibitions, anxieties, both painful and incomprehensible. Jacques Lacan's hypothesis at the end of the seminar Encore, but presented well before this, is that the enjoying substance of the body is affected by language. The symptom is the main manifestation of the organism affected by discourse, and Freud, once again, situated it first of all as a way of enjoying. The real symptom, disconnected from meaning, is not disconnected from language: it is a mixture of moterialite and jouissance, of the word enjoyed or of jouissance transferred to the word. Lacan wrote its structure in the seminar RSI as a function of the letter one. It is precisely the correlate of the non-knowledge of the One incarnated in the unconscious as lalangue.
