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==Signifying Chain==
To [[punctuate]] a [[signifying chain]] is to produce [[meaning]].
It is the listener/receiver who [[punctuate]]s this [[discourse]] and thereby sanctions [[retroactive]]ly one particular [[meaning]] of an [[utterance]].
==Illusion of a Fixed Meaning==
The [[punctuation]] of the [[signifying chain]] is that which creates the [[illusion]] of a fixed [[meaning]]:
"The punctuation, once inserted, fixes the meaning."<ref>{{E}} p.99</ref>
==Communication==
This is essential in the [[structure]] of [[communication]], where "the sender receives his own message from the receiver."
==Examples==
The operation of [[punctuation]] may be illustrated by reference to two situations which are of fundamental importance to [[psychoanalysis]]: the [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual relation]], and the [[transference|transferential]] relation between [[analysand]] and [[analyst]].
===Mother-Child Relation===
The [[analyst]] can [[punctuate]] the [[analysand]]'s [[discourse]] simply by repeating part of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]] back to him (perhaps with a different intonation or in a different context).
For example, if the [[analysand]] says ''tu es ma mère'' ('"you are my mother'"), the ppanalyst[[ analyst]] may repeat it in such a way as to bring out the homophony of this phrase with ''tuer ma mère'' ('"to kill my mother'").<ref>{{E}} p.269</ref>
==Sessions of Variable Duration==
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Signifying chain]]
* [[Enunciation]]
* [[Enunciated]]
* [[Point de capiton]]
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* [[Communication]]
* [[Demand]]
* [[Speech]]
* [[Sessions of variable duration]]
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== References ==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
