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The verb '[[slip]]' (''glisser'') (and its corresponding noun, '[[slippage]]' (''glissement'') to ) is used by [[Lacan]] is describe the unstable relationship betweenthe [[signifier]] and the [[signified]].

The term thus emphasises the different ways in which [[Saussure ]] and [[Lacan ]] conceive of SIGNIFICATION; for Saussure, significa-[[signification]].

tion For [[Saussure]], [[signification]] was a stable bond between [[signifier ]] and [[signified]], but for [[Lacan ]] it is anunstable, fluid relationship.

unstable, fluid relationship. It [[Lacan]] argues that it is impossible to establish a stable one-to-one link between signifiers and signifieds, [[signifier]]s and Lacan symbolises this by inscribing a bar between them in the Saussurean algorithm (see Figure 18, p.184). The [[signified slips and slides under the bar of the Saussurean algorithm are in a continuous movement (E, 154), a movement which is only temporarily detained by the POINTSDE CAPITON. When there are not enough points de capiton, as is the case in PSYCHOSIs, the slippery movement of signification is endless, and stable mean- ings dissolve altogether]]s.

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