sinthome

is, as opposed to symptom, an 'atom of enjoyment' in (i.e. Like a tic we compulsively repeat), enjoyment in its smallest, most elementary, packages.

Among many neologisms of late Lacan, there is le sinthome, 'sinthom' as opposed to symptom. Sinthoms are a kind of 'atoms of enjoyment,' the minimal synthesis of language and enjoyment, units of signs permeated with enjoyment (like a tic we compulsively repeat). Are sinthoms not quanta of enjoyment, its smallest, most elementary, packages' (zizek 'how to read lacan' 66)

is defined against the symptom. Unlike a symptom, which xxxx, a sinthome, for instance a tic, is a minimal, elementary language we compulsively repeat which is permeated with enjoyment. It is the atom of enjoyment.

sinthome, n.Definitions

sinthome