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Reading L’Étourdit. First Turn. Chapter 2. Freud’s Saying

Christian Fierens

Issue 51 — Autumn 2012

23–44

(51) The signifier (S1) represents the subject ($) for another signifier (S2). In the master discourse the signifier, taken as a semblance (S1), can be used for something quite other, quite Other (S2). The master discourse is stabilized in the relationship between S1 and S2. It develops the meaning-relationship. As a practice of free association, a practice of the signifier, should analysis be polarised towards the meaning-relationship? Does analysis consist in separating out such a relationship from the remarks of the analysand?…

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