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This link may be one of physical contguitycontiguity, but not necessarily. Metonymy is a figure of speech that involves transferring a name from one thing to another on the basis of certain typical kinds of relations: designating the effect with the cause, the whole with a part, the contents with its container.  An example would be "a sail on the horizon" for "a ship on the horizon."

It is analogous with ==Roman Jakobson==However, [[Lacan]]'s use of the term owes little to this definition apart from the Freudian concept notion of "displacement" and refers to contiguity, since it is inspired by the problematic work of desire [[Roman Jakobson]], who established an opposition between [[metonymy]] and demand[[metaphor]]. <ref>Jakobson 1956</ref>

-- However, Lacan's use of the term owes little to this definition apart from the notionn of contiguity, since it is inspired by the work of Following [[Roman Jakobson]], who established an opposition between [[metonymyLacan]] and links [[metaphormetonymy]].<ref>Jakobson 1956</ref> Following [[Jakobson]], [[Lacan]] links metonymy to the combinatorial axis of [[language]], as opposed to the substitutive axis. <ref>(For example, in the sentence 'I am happy,' the relation between the words 'I' and 'am' is a metonymic relation, whereas the possibility of substituting 'sad' for 'happy' depends on the metaphoric relation between these two terms.) --</ref>

On the lefthand side of the equation, outside the brackets, [[Lacan]] writes '''<i>f</i>''' '''S''', the signifying function, which is to say the effect of [[signification]].

On the righthand side of the equation there is '''S''', the [[signifier]], and ( '''- -''' ), the [[bar]] of the [[Saussure]]ean [[sign|algorithm]]. The [[sign]] = is to be read "is congruent with."

Thus the whole formula reads: <blockquote>"the signifying function of the connection of the signifier with the signifier is congruent with maintenance of the bar."</blockquote>

=== Metonymy and Desire===