The Body Marked by Language [1]

By | May 8th, 2021|LRO 294|

In his last Seminar, The Moment to Conclude, Lacan says the following: "The Symbolic is language: we learn to speak and it leaves traces […], consequences that are nothing other than the sinthome and analysis consists […] in realising why we have these sinthomes […][2]" That is to say, language has an effect on the body, marking it with traces that impede the [...]