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The verb '[[slip]]' ([[French]]:''[[glisser]]'') (and its corresponding noun, '[[slippage]]' ([[French]]:''[[glissement]]'')) is used by [[Lacan]] is describe the unstable relationship between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]].
The term thus emphasises the different ways in which [[Saussure]] and [[Lacan]] conceive of [[signification]].
For [[Saussure]], [[signification]] was a stable bond between [[signifier]] and [[signified]], but for [[Lacan]] it is an unstable, fluid relationship.
[[Lacan]] argues that it is impossible to establish a stable one-to-one link between [[signifier]]s and [[signified]]s.
He symbolises this impossibility by inscribing a [[bar]] between them in the [[Saussurean algorithm]].
The [[signified]] slips and slides under the [[bar]] of the [[Saussurean algorithm]] in a continuous movement,<ref>{{E, }} p.154</ref> a movement which is only temporarily detained by the ''[[points de capiton]]''.
In the case of [[psychosis]], the slippery movement of [[signification]] is endless, and stable [[meaning]]s dissolve altogether.
* [[Signified]]
* [[Signification]]
* [[barBar]]* [[points Point de capiton]]* [[meaningMeaning]]
== References ==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
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