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The [[subject of enunciation]] is the "[[I]]" who speaks, the [[individual]] doing the [[speaking]].The [[subject of the enunciated]] is the "[[I]]" of the [[sentence]]. "[[I]]" is not identical to itself - it is [[split]] between the [[individual]] "I" (the [[subject of enunciation]]) and the [[grammatical ]] "[[I]]" (the [[subject of the enunciated]]).

Although we may [[experience ]] [[them ]] as [[unified]], this is merely an [[Imaginary ]] [[illusion]], for the pronoun "I" is actually a [[substitute ]] for the "I" of the [[subject]].

It does not account for me in my [[full ]] specificity; it is, rather, a general term I share with everyone else. In [[order ]] to do so, my empirical [[reality ]] must be annihilated or, as [[Lacan ]] avers, "the [[symbol ]] manifests itself first of all as the [[murder ]] of [[the thing]]". The subject can only enter [[language ]] by negating the [[Real]], murdering or substituting the blood-and-sinew reality of [[self ]] for the [[concept ]] of self expressed in [[words]].

Lacan is able to refashion [[Descartes]]' "I [[think]], therefore I am" as "I think where I am not, therefore I am where I think not".

The "I think" here is the subject of the [[enunciated ]] (the [[Symbolic ]] subject) whereas the "I am" is the subject of the [[enunciation ]] ([[the Real ]] subject).

What Lacan aims to disclose by rewriting the [[Cartesian ]] [[cogito ]] in this way is that the subject is irrevocably split, torn asunder by language