<blockquote>"The [[punctuation]], once inserted, fixes the [[meaning]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 99</ref></blockquote>
=====The Structure of Communication=====
This is essential in the [[structure]] of [[communication]], where "the sender receives his own message from the receiver."
It is illustrated in the "[[graph of desire|elementary cell]]" of the [[graph of desire]].
==Examples===Psychoanalysis=====
The operation of [[punctuation]] may be illustrated by reference to two situations which are of fundamental importance to [[psychoanalysis]]: the [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual relation]], and the [[transference|transferential]] relation between [[analysand]] and [[analyst]].
=====Mother-Child Dual Relation=====
In the first of these situations, the [[baby]] who has not yet acquired [[speech]] can only articulate his [[need]]s in a very primitive kind of [[demand]], namely by screaming.
There is no way of knowing for sure whether a scream articulates hunger, pain, tiredness, fear, or something else, and yet the [[mother ]] [[interpretation|interprets ]] it in one particular way, thus determining its [[meaning ]] [[retroactive]]ly.
=====Analysand-Analyst Relation=====[[Punctuation]] is one of the forms which the intervention of the [[analyst]] may take; by [[punctuation|punctuating ]] the [[analysand]]'s [[discourse ]] in an unexpected way, the [[analyst]] can [[retroactively ]] alter the [[consciousness|intended ]] [[meaning]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]]: "changing the punctuation renews or upsets" the fixed [[meaning]] that the [[analysand]] had attributed to his own [[speech]].<ref>{{E}} p. 99</ref>
"changing the punctuation renews or upsets" the fixed Such [[meaningpunctuation]] is a way of "showing the subject that the [[analysand]] had attributed to his own [[speech]]he is saying more than he thinks he is."<ref>{{ES1}} p.9954</ref>
Such The [[punctuationanalyst]] is a way can [[punctuate]] the [[analysand]]'s [[discourse]] simply by [[repetition|repeating]] part of "showing the subject that he is saying more than he thinks he is."<ref>{{S1}} p[[analysand]]'s [[speech]] back to him (perhaps with a different intonation or in a different context).54</ref>
The [[analyst]] can [[punctuate]] For example, if the [[analysand]]says 's 'tu es ma mère'' ("you are my mother"), the [[discourseanalyst]] simply by repeating part may repeat it in such a way as to bring out the homophony of the [[analysand]]this phrase with ''tuer ma mère''s [[speech]] back ("to him (perhaps with a different intonation or in a different contextkill my mother"). <ref>{{E}} p. 269</ref>
For example=====Psychoanalytic Treatment=====Alternatively, if the [[analyst]] can also [[punctuate]] the [[analysand]] says ''tu es ma mère'' ("you are my mother")s [[speech]] by a moment of [[silence]], or by interrupting the [[analystanalysand]] may repeat it in such a way as to bring out , or by terminating the homophony of this phrase with ''tuer ma mère'' ("to kill my mother")[[session]] at an opportune moment.<ref>{{E}} p.26944</ref>
==Sessions This last form of Variable Duration==Alternatively, the [[analyst]] can also [[punctuatepunctuation]] has been a source of controversy throughout the history of [[analysandLacan]]'s ian [[speechpsychoanalysis]] by a moment of , since it contravenes the traditional [[silenceIPA]], or by interrupting the [[analysandpractice]], or by terminating the of [[sessionpunctuation|sessions of fixed duration]] at an opportune moment.<ref>{{E}} p.44</ref>
This last form ====="Sessions of Variable Duration"=====[[punctuationLacan]] has been a source of controversy throughout the history 's practice of [[Lacanpunctuation|sessions of variable duration]]ian ([[psychoanalysisFrench]], since it contravenes the traditional : ''[[IPApunctuation|séances scandées]] '') came to be one of the main reasons that the [[practiceIPA]] of gave for excluding him when the [[sessionSFP]]s of was negotiating for [[sessions of variable duration|fixed durationIPA]]recognition in the early 1960s.
Today, the technique of [[Lacanpunctuation]]'s [[, especially as expressed in the practice]] of [[punctuation|sessions of variable duration]] ([[French]]: ''[[séances scandées]]'') came , continues to be one a distinctive feature of the main reasons that the [[IPA]] gave for excluding him when the [[SFPLacanian]] was negotiating for [[IPApsychoanalysis]] recognition in the early 1960s.
Today, the [[technique]] of [[punctuation]], especially as expressed in the [[practice]] of [[sessions of variable duration]], continues to be a distinctive feature of [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]]. =====See Also=====
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