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This [[sense ]] of [[existence]] is to be [[understood ]] in the context of [[Freud]]'s [[discussion ]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to it.

Only what is integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 33</ref>

It is important to note that, in the [[symbolic order]], "[[nothing ]] exists except on an assumed foundation of [[absence]]. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not exist."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref>

In other [[words]], everything that exists in the [[symbolic order]] only exists by virtue of its [[difference ]] to everything else.

It was [[Saussure]] who first pointed this out when he argued that in [[language]] there are no positive [[terms]], only differences.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, Glasgow: Collins Fontana.</ref>

<blockquote>"There is in effect something radically unassimilable to the signifier. It's quite simply the subject's [[singular ]] existence."<ref>{{S3}} p.179</ref></blockquote>

[[Lacan]] coins the neologism ''[[existence|ex-sistence]]'' to express the [[idea ]] that the heart of our [[being]] (''Kern unseres Wesen'') is also radically [[Other]], strange, [[outside]];<ref>{{Ec}} p.11</ref> the [[subject]] is decentered, his center is [[outside]] of himself, he is [[extimacy|ex-centric]].

[[Lacan]] also speaks of the "[[existence|ex-sistence]] (''[[existence|Entstellung]]'') of desire in the dream,"<ref>{{E}} p.264</ref> since the [[dream]] cannot [[represent ]] [[desire]] except by distorting it.