Insistence of the letter in the Unconscious’ Lacan recounts the story of a boy and a girl arriving by the train at a station

Q1) In his ‘ Insistence of the letter in the Unconscious’ Lacan recounts the story of a boy and a girl arriving by the train at a station. Lacan uses this story to illustrate that language ( and the relationship between signifier and signified) is innately figurative and non referential. HOW DOES THE STORY WORK TO ILLUSTRATE THIS? THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE STORY. Lacan argues that human subjectivity is constituted by the moment of entry into language. CAN THIS STORY BE READ AS A FABLE OF THIS PROCESS? From Psychoanalytic point of view, WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FACT

THAT WHILE THE LITTLE BOY PERCEIVES ‘ LADIES’ AT THE MOMENT OF ENTRY INTO LANGUAGE, THE LITTLE GIRL PERCEIVES’ GENTLEMEN’?
with this question please stick to the question.
Q2) Think about the development of ideas that we have traced from New Criticism to Psychoanalysis. Pay Particular

attention to the way in which Saussure’s theorisation of semiotics, particulary of the arbitrary nature of signs, has

influenced structuralism, Deconstruction and now Psychoanalysis. WHAT OTHER BASIC THEORETICAL PREMISES ARE COMMON TO ALL

OF THESE MODALITIES?

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