ABSTRACT
J. Lacan uses the terms signifier and subject interchangeably. "The signifier is what represents a subject for another signifier". Lacan notes that the proper name must be neither idealised nor devalued but rather reduced to the most ordinary noun. Lacan claims that we will understand its function when we have grasped the subjective or emotional response to any alteration of the name. According to Lacan a Freudian slip is an error in the structure of the knot where the cord fails to go under or another cord creating thereby an entanglement between a mistake, an error, and a transgression. Lacan also says that the slip or the error in the structure is what grounds the notion of the unconscious. The distinction between symptom and sinthome is coextensive to the difference between the Lacan of the Symbolic and the Lacan of the Real and jouissance.
