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[[Metonymy]] is usually defined as a trope in which a term is used to denote an [[object]] which it does not literally refer to, but with which it is closely linked.
This link may be one of physical contguity, but not necessarily.
Lacan insisted that metonymy resists being meaningful by always producing apparent nonsense, as is usually the case with the manifest content of a dream.
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Metonymy is a figure of speech that involves transferring a name from one thing to another on the basis of certain typical kinds of relations: designating the effect with the cause, the whole with a part, the contents with its container.
An example would be "a sail on the horizon" for "a ship on the horizon."
Metonymy is a fundamental notion supporting Lacan's thesis that "the unconscious is structured like a language."
It is analogous with the Freudian concept of "displacement" and refers to the problematic of desire and demand.
== See Also ==
* [[Condensation]]
