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==Linguistic ===Definition=====As early as 1957, the The term [[symptomsinthome]] is said to be 'inscribed in a writing process' (Ec, 445). as [[Lacan]] defines the [[symptom]] in [[linguistic]] termspoints out, as a an archaic way of writing what has more recently been spelt [[signifiersymptôme]]. conceiving of the symptom as a message which can be deciphered by reference to the unconscious 'structured like a language',
=====Jacques Lacan=====
=====1975-6 Seminar=====
[[Lacan]] introduces the term in 1975, as the title for the 1975-6 [[seminar]], which is both a continuing elaboration of his [[topology]], extending the previous [[seminar]]'s focus on the [[borromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
Through this coincidentia ''oppositorum'' -- bringing together [[mathematics|mathematical theory]] and the intricate weave of the [[James Joyce|Joycean]] text -- [[Lacan]] redefines the [[psychoanalytic]] [[symptom]] in terms of his final [[topology]] of the [[subject]].
=====Symptom as pure ''Jouissance''=====In 1963 [[Lacan]] goes on to state that the trace of the particular modality of [[symptom]], unlike [[acting out]], does not call for [[interpretation]]; in itself, it is not a call to the [[subjectOther]]but a pure ''s [[jouissance]]'' addressed to no one.<ref>{{L}} 1962-3. ''Le Séminaire. Livre X. L'angoisse'', culminates in the introduction of the term sinthome1962-3, unpublished.</ref>
=====The Way in Which the Subject Enjoys the Unconscious=====
Such comments anticipate the radical transformation of Lacan's thought implicit in his shift from the [[linguistic]] definition of the [[symptom]] - as a [[signifier]] - to his statement, in the 1974-5 [[seminar]], that "the symptom can only be defined as the way in which each subject enjoys [''jouit''] the unconscious, in so far as the unconscious determines him."<ref>{{L}} 1974-5. ''Le Séminaire. Livre XXII. RSI'', 1974-5, published in ''Ornicar?'', nos. 2-5, 1975.</ref>
=====Kernel of Enjoyment Beyond the Symbolic=====The ''[[sinthome]] is what 'allows one to live' by providing thus designates a unique organisation signifying formulation beyond [[analysis]], a kernel of [[jouissanceenjoyment]] immune to the efficacy of the [[symbolic]].
====Shift from Linguistics to Topology=====The theoretical shift from [[linguistics]] to [[topology]] which marks the final period of Lacan's work constitutes the true status of the [[sinthome]] as unanalysable, and amounts to an exegetical problem beyond the familiar one of [[Lacan]]'s dense rhetoric.
=====''Sinthome'' as Fourth Ring in Borromean Knot=====The 1975-6 [[Lacanseminar]] introduces extends the theory of the term [[borromean knot]], which in 1975, the previous seminar had been proposed as the title for essential [[structure]] of the 1975-6 [[seminarsubject]], which is both by adding the ''[[sinthome]]'' as a continuing elaboration fourth ring to the [[triad]] of his the [[topologyreal]], extending the previous [[seminarsymbolic]]'s focus on and the [[borromean knotimaginary]], and an exploration of the writings of tying together a [[James Joyceknot]]which constantly threatens to come undone.
Since meaning (sens) is already figured within the knot, at the intersection of the symbolic and the imaginary (see Figure 1), it follows that the function of the sinthome - intervening to knot together real, symbolic and imaginary - is inevitably beyond meaning.
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The Joycean text - from the epiphany to Finnegans Wake - entailed a special relation to language; a 'destructive' refashioning of it as sinthome, the invasion of the symbolic order by the subject's private jouissance. One of Lacan's puns, synth-homme, implies this kind of 'artificial' self-creation.