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=====Translation=====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]].

To avoid =====Upholstery Button=====It literally designates an [[upholstery button]], the analogy [[being]] that just as [[upholstery button]]s are places where "the confusion resulting mattress-maker's needle has worked hard to prevent a shapeless mass of stuffing from this variety of translationmoving too freely [[about]].<ref>Bowie, Malcolm. (1991) ''Lacan'', [[London]]: Fontana. p.74</ref>, " so the term has here been left in the original ''[[Frenchpoints de capiton]]'' are points at which the "signified and signifier are knotted together."<ref>{{S3}} p. 268</ref>

It literally designates an =====Slippage=====[[upholstery buttonLacan]] introduces the term in his 1955-6 [[seminar]] on [[the psychoses]], to account for the analogy being fact that just as despite the continual [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the [[upholstery buttonsignifier]]s , there are places nevertheless in the normal ([[neurotic]]) [[subject]] certain fundamental "attachment points" between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] where this [[slip]]page is temporarily halted. A certain minimum [[number]] of these points are "necessary for a person to be called normal," and "when they are not established, or when they give way'"the mattress-maker's needle has worked hard to prevent a shapeless mass of stuffing from moving too freely aboutresult is [[psychosis]].<ref>Bowie, Malcolm{{S3}} pp. (1991) ''Lacan'', London: Fontana. p.74268-9</ref>This helps to explain how it is that in the [[psychotic]] [[experience]]," so the ''signifier and the signified [[present]] themselves in a completely [[divided]] [[points de capitonform]]'' are points at which the "signified and signifier are knotted together."<ref>{{S3}} p.268</ref>.

[[Lacan]] introduces the term in his 1955-6 [[seminar]] on [[the psychoses]] to account for the fact that despite the continual [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the [[signifier]], thereare nevertheless in the normal ([[neurotic]]) [[subject]] certain fundamental "attachment points" between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] where this [[slip]]page is temporarily halted.  A certain minimum number of these points are "necessary for a person to be called normal," and "when they are not established, or when they give way'" the result is [[psychosis]].<ref>{{S3}} p.268-9</ref> This helps to explain how it is that in the [[psychotic]] experience, "the signifier and the signified present themselves in a completely divided form."<ref>{{S3}} p.268</ref>. =====Illusion of a Fixed Meaning=====The ''[[point de capiton]]'' is thus the point in the [[signifying chain]] at which "the signifier stops the otherwise endless movement of the signification" and produces the necessary [[illusion]] of a fixed [[meaning]].<ref>{{E}} p.303</ref>

Since the [[signifying chain]] has both a [[diachronic]] and a [[synchronic]] [[dimension]], so also does the ''[[point de capiton]]'':

[[Image:PointdeCapitonGRAPHOFDESIRE-ONE.gifjpg|thumb|275pxright|[[graph of desire|rightThe elementary cell]]]]The [[diachronic]] dimension of the ''[[point de capiton]]'' lies in the fact that [[communication]] is always a [[retroactive]] effect of [[punctuation]]. It is only when the [[sentence]] is completed that the [[sense]] of the first [[words]] is determined [[retroactively]]. This function is illustrated in the [[graph of desire|elementary cell]] of the [[graph of desire]], in which the ''[[point de capiton]]'' is the leftmost point of intersection between the vector '''S - S'''' and the vector.

It is only when the sentence is completed that the sense of the first words is determined [[retroactively]].  This function is illustrated in the elementary cell of the [[graph of desire]], in which the ''[[point de capiton]]'' is the leftmost point of intersection between the vector S-S' and the vector [[Image:ASRIGHT.jpg|25px]] (A-S). ===Synchrony==Synchronic Dimension=====

* [[PsychosisSlip]]* [[Signifier]]/[[Signified]]* [[Meaning]]* [[Subject]]* [[Interpretation]]* [[Synchronic]]/[[Diachronic]]* [[Ideology]]* [[Illusion]]{{Also}}