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306therefore, be an object that is, firstly, separable and, secondly, that has some relation to the lack”(112). In fact, it this lack or split creates our subjectivity.25 The floating signs that constitute a point de capitona master or an empty signifierare roamingin the field of discursivity as they go through an emptying of their contents. What happens is thatmeaning is partially fixed by the intervention (over-determination) of a master signifier that sets upretroactively the identity of these floating signifiers by keeping them within the bounds of whatLaclau and Mouffe call “ the logics of equivalence and difference” (142).26 In Revolution in Poetic Language, Kristeva argues that “The term inter-textuality denotes thetransposition of one (or several) sign system[s] into another; but since this term has often beenunderstood in the banal sense of ‘study of sources,’ we prefer the term transposition because itspecifies that the passage from one signifying system to another demands a new articulation of thetheticof enunciative and denotative positionality (59-60; emphasis original).27 A primal scene is constructed by the analyst through hypothetical and explanatory fiction. It is ahermeneutic allegory whose function is to explain the origins of neurosis and psychosis. Sinceeverything leads out from the primal scene, it is clear that the primal scene is pre-conscious in the lifeof the subject. The Wolf Man case, however, is a theory of narrative that has two functions: ahermeneutic function that digs for origins (origins of neurosis and psychosis) and a function ofnarrative structuration that elucidates the circuits of the primal scene (how everything leads out fromit and returns to it).