Changes

However, he rejects accusations of neglecting the role of [[affect]], pointing to the fact that a whole year of the [[seminar]] is dedicated precisely to discussing [[anxiety]].<ref>{{TV}} p. 38</ref>

[[Lacan]] does not propose a general theory of [[affect]]s, but only touches on them insofar as they impinge on [[psychoanalytic treatment]].

He argues that [[affect]]s are not [[signifier]]s but [[signal]]s,<ref>{{S7}} p. 102-3</ref> and emphasizes [[Freud]]'s position that [[repression]] does not bear upon the [[affect]] (which can only be transformed or [[displacement|displaced]]) but upon the ideational representative (which is, in [[Lacan]]'s terms, the [[signifier]]).<ref>{{Ec}} p. 714</ref>

[[Lacan]]'s comments on the concept of [[affect]] have important implications in [[clinical]] [[practice]].