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The [[symptom]] is not a call to the [[Other]] but pure ''[[jouissance]]'' addressed to no one.<ref>Lacan, 1962-3: seminar of 23 January 1963</ref>
"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>Lacan, 1974-5: seminar of 18 February 1975</ref>
The [[sinthome]] thus designates a signifying formulation beyond [[analysis]], a kernel of [[enjoyment]] immune to the efficacy of the [[symbolic]].
the [[sinthome]] is what 'allows one to live' by providing a unique organisation of [[jouissance]].
The task of [[analysis]] thus becomes, in one of [[Lacan]]'s last definitions of the [[end of analysis]], to [[identify]] with the [[sinthome]].
For Lacan, the symptom is the fixed manner in which subjects enjoy their unconscious.