Patricia McCarthy – The Economies of the Subject Serve Both Repression and the Signifier
 
THE LETTER 01 (Summer 1994) pages 103-110
 
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Mindful of the theme for this Congress “The Subject of the Unconscious and Language”, I wish to confine this communication to a clinical demonstration -yes, in the way physicians demonstrate clinical signs -a demonstration of the action of the signifier on the subject. The signifier, as we know, is any inert element of language which unconscious meaning borrows to communicate...