Lacanian Ink 4 by John Yau (1991-10-20)

Reflections on the Formal Envelope of the Symptom: there is in the symptom a message, and there is the symptom Jouissance. Already for the message "emitted by the Other in its language" raises an hysteric subject. Then its Jouissance might already be found in the fact as much as in the way or "form" of the enunciation itself. Form is what may be emptied.