ABSTRACT
Lacan changed the analytic clinic; rather, they are justified by their returning psychoanalysis to the Freudian analytic clinic. “The Instance of the Letter” shows this clearly: the symptom is a formation of the unconscious and the unconscious is structured like a metaphor. The status that Lacan reserves for the letter as nomination is crucial. Self-identity is the subject’s only real identity. For through the letter of the symptom, a subject can find the fixity of a position in being that can extract him from the metonymy of the want-to-be. In this sense, there is a nomination at the end of the analytic experience that does not relate to the Name-of-the-Father. This other nomination knots the knowledge produced in an analysis to jouissance as the irreducible remainder of the symptom. The question remains whether it is possible to maintain identification with the symptom at the end of analysis now that the symptom does not cease to be written.
