I am also interested in Caitlin's question of where a metaphor appears initially. As stated in class, however, under Freud, anything can function as a metaphor as it has more to do with substitution. If this were the case, the notion of a relationship between two objects would not be important until after the fact. At the same time, does a substitution occur at complete random and, if not, is there a connection (reminiscent of a relationship) made unconsciously? It seems that for Lacan, the relationship is primary and only through the relationship can a significance between two objects arise and determine language.

Do Freud and Lacan's theories oppose each other? It would seem that they do but no such opposition was mentioned in class. I suppose for Freud the physical precedes the psychological and for Lacan the psychological precedes the physical and, in making the relationship between the two theories of Freud and Lacan, readers must be wary which model they use.