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{| align==Definition==The "[[Frenchright]] term ''" style="line-height:2.0em;text-align:right;margin-left: 10px;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" | [[point de capitonFrench]]'' is variously translated in [[English]] editions of [[Lacan]]'s work as ': [[quilting point]]' or '[[anchoring |point]]'. de capiton{{Bottom}}
The [[French]] term ''[[point de capiton]]'' is variously translated in [[English]] editions of [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] as "[[quilting point]]" or "[[anchoring point]]." To avoid the confusion resulting from this variety of [[translation]], the term has here been [[left ]] in the original [[French]].
=====Illusion of a Fixed Meaning=====The ''[[upholstery buttonpoint de capiton]] '' is an thus the point in the [[anchoring pointsignifying chain]] on a quilt at which "prevents the signifier stops the otherwise endless movement of the signification" and produces the necessary [[illusion]] of a shapeless mass of stuffing from moving too freely aboutfixed [[meaning]].<ref>Bowie, Malcolm. 1991. {{E}} p.74303</ref>
=====Synchronic Dimension=====The [[signifierssynchronic]] or aspect is [[signifying chainmetaphor]] are unstable and liable to , by which the [[slippagesignifier]]s of crosses the [[meaningbar]] into the [[signified]].
<!-- But if each signification refers to [[another]] signification, and that signification refers to another one, in an endless [[chain]], how do we decide what words mean? The [[Lacanian]] term point de capiton (literally, an upholstery stud) refers to a point of convergence. Just as an upholstery stud or button is the center for the converging lines or creases on the surface of a taut fabric, so the [[linguistic]] ''point de capiton'' provides a vantage point from which everything that happens in a given [[discourse]] can be situated both retroactively and prospectively. The subject attaches [[significance]] to certain signifier; these [[signifiers]], like upholstery buttons, pin down the [[floating]] mass of [[signification]]. Lacan stresses the fact that we do not [[understand]] a sentence until we [[know]] we have reached the end; its meaning remains in suspense until the closure. A point de capiton, then, is the "anchoring point" by which the signifier stops the otherwise endless movement of signification. Its diachronic function is to put a halt to the otherwise endless [[process]] whereby signifier refers to signifier. -->
==See Also==
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* [[Graph of desire]]
* [[Psychosis]]
* [[Punctuation]]
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* [[Signification]]
* [[Signified]]
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* [[Signifier]]
* [[Signifying chain]]
* [[PsychosisSlip]]* [[Signifier]]/[[Signified]]* [[Meaning]]* [[Subject]]* [[Interpretation]]* [[Synchronic]]/[[Diachronic]]* [[Ideology]]* [[Illusion]]{{Also}}
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