Cadaverizing Signifier
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' · Adrian Johnston · p.54
**2** > <span id="page-38-0"></span>**The Adversary**
Theoretical move: Johnston argues that Lacan's "jewelry box" image (l'écrin) condenses his core theoretical distinction between pseudo-Freudian pragmatism (treating the body as raw, instinctual flesh) and the properly Freudian-Lacanian unconscious as a symbolically overwritten, linguistically structured locus of truth—thereby grounding his "return to Freud" in a dialectic of mortification and preservation enacted by the signifier on the living body.
the 'cadaverizing' symbolic order overwriting and mortifying the living flesh of the human host organism, with this order's signifiers simultaneously annihilating and preserving