Editorial

Editorial

The Symptom changes its name. Not the Symptom anymore, it will be the Sinthome—or the way Jacques Lacan titled his Seminar, Livre XXIII: Le sinthome, from 1975-76. The Latin way, according to Rabelais, of spelling the Greek origin of the French word symptôme, which means “symptom.”

However it stands relative to nomination, it is precisely the unnamable which, at the end of analysis, claims a space. But how do you get there, and once there, how do you identify it?